Given name & surname
Knowlton
“knoll, summit”
Knowlton is a surname from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Knowlton goes back to Old English cnoll, meaning “knoll, summit.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1897. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Knowlton through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 26
- 26 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1925. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 7,672 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Similar names
If you love Knowlton, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
Frampton
“enclosure; settlement, town”
>99% boys
Claxton
“hill, peak”
>99% boys
Worthington
“belonging to” · “enclosure; settlement, town”
>99% boys
Newton
“from the new town”
>99% boys
Crafton
“saffron”
>99% boys
Hilton
“a wealthy woman” · “from the town on the hill”
85% boys · 15% girls
Grafton
“grove”
>99% boys
Cosby
“farm; settlement”
90% boys · 10% girls