# Knut (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/knut/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 65 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 65 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 5 | 4,228 |
| 1925 | 5 | 4,592 |
| 1930 | 5 | 4,296 |
| 1943 | 5 | 3,808 |
| 1955 | 6 | 3,706 |
| 1957 | 5 | 4,285 |
| 1960 | 7 | 3,507 |
| 1967 | 5 | 4,277 |
| 1968 | 9 | 3,001 |
| 1985 | 6 | 6,193 |
| 2013 | 7 | 10,262 |

## People named Knut

- Knut Østby, Canoe racer (1922-2010)
- Knut Reinhardt, German footballer/teacher
- Knut Kircher, German football referee
- Knut Haakonsson, 13th-century Norwegian nobleman
- Knut Ansgar Nelson, Catholic bishop (1906–1990)
- Knut Jungbohn Clement, Danish linguist (1803–1873)
- Knut Folkerts, German criminal
- Canute Lavard, Duke of Schleswig and Danish prince
- Fredrik Idestam, Finnish mining engineer, founder of Nokia (1838–1916)
- Canute, Duke of Estonia, Duke of Estonia (1211–1260)
- Knud V. Engelhardt, Danish architect and designer (1882–1931)
- Knud Porse, Danish noble (died 1330)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.