- 1,082
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Knabe
Meaning & Origins
German: status name for a young man or a page, from Middle High German knabe. In aristocratic circles this term denoted a page or squire (a youth destined to become a knight), while among artisans it referred to a journeyman's assistant or (as a short form of Lehrknabe) ‘apprentice’. In the 15th century a semantic split between Knabe and its variants Knape, Knapp(e) resulted in Knabe meaning ‘boy’ and Knapp(e) ‘servant’, ‘apprentice’, and ‘miner’ in modern German.
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- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,082
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Alaska
- has the most people named Knabe per capita
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