Knob
loc · Latin script
Meaning: A rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface; a fleshy lump or caruncle
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Knob is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.3M(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 80K
- BRBrazil1 in 153K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Knob itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- 1 in 80K (inferred from the name graph)
1,383 people
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface; a fleshy lump or caruncle.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Knob counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 1,383 | 1 in 153K | 1.4K | — | 1 |
| US United States | 142 | 1 in 2.3M | 196 | Knob | 72 |
| CZ Czechia | 134 | 1 in 80K | 134 | — | 1 |
| RU Russia | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 24M | — | Knob | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 15M | — | Knob | 11 |
| CA Canada | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 14M | — | Knob | 2 |
| AU Australia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Knob | 8 |
1,383 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Knob is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, knot (nautical unit of speed)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sándor Knobb. 1888HUHungarian politician (1888-1967)
- Jan Knobb. 1904CZCzech publicist and writer (1904-1977)
- Pavel Knobb. 1973CZCzech rower
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.4K | #6,852 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 196 | #98,894 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 153 | #107,565 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 142 | #121,590 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 134 | #12,722 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 134 | #6,781 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Knob mean, and where does it come from?
- A rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface; a fleshy lump or caruncle. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Knob have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Knob, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Knob most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Knob is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 80 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Knob?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,383 people named Knob, about 1 in 153 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/knobThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Knob”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.