Popularity of the last name by country
Argentina
All countries
- United Kingdom (471,688)
- United States (189,317)
- Australia (19,982)
- New Zealand (15,573)
- Ireland (10,167)
- France (6,764)
- Canada (5,483)
- Unknown country (4,367)
- Netherlands (978)
- Germany (747)
- Belgium (663)
- Italy (619)
- Switzerland (333)
- India (276)
- Mexico (272)
- Colombia (264)
- South Africa (235)
- Spain (226)
- Argentina (215)
- Martinique (196)
- Israel (186)
- Denmark (170)
- Austria (166)
- Portugal (145)
- Greece (132)
- Peru (123)
- China (119)
- Turkey (119)
- Jamaica (118)
- Egypt (96)
- Russian Federation (95)
- Sweden (91)
- Brazil (79)
- Cuba (74)
- Hungary (69)
- Poland (69)
- Indonesia (61)
- Norway (55)
- Palestine (53)
- Cyprus (50)
Origine of last name
KNIGHT : 1: English: status or occupational name from Middle English knight ‘retainer attendant’ (Old English cniht ‘boy youth lad)’. The specialized feudal sense ‘a high-ranking tenant bound to serve his lord as a mounted soldier’ is not known to have ever given rise to the surname although it is not out of the question that it may occasionally have been used as a nickname perhaps for someone who played the part of an armed knight in a local pageant.2: Irish: sometimes adopted for Gaelic Mac an Ridire ‘son of the knight’. See also <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/McKnight">McKnight</a>.
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