as a Last Name
- 31,234
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Knowles
Meaning & Origins
English: topographic name for someone who lived at the top of a hill or by a hillock, from a genitive or plural form of Middle English knoll ‘hilltop’, ‘hillock’ (Old English cnoll; see Knoll), or habitational name from any of the many places named with this word.
| 1,125th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 31,234
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Maine
- has the most people named Knowles per capita
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