Last Name KNOWLES

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Meaning	Local: At the knoll, from residence thereon. From 'knol,' a hill, a summit. The final 's' in Knowles, Knollys, etc may be patronymic, as in Brooks, Styles, Holmes, etc. The top of a hill. 'Knowl,' in Cornish British, is a promontory, hill, or eminence, a projection of hilly ground.

Origin	English, Jewish, Irish, Falkland

Rank	1,174 (2000 US census)	995 (1990 US census)

Count	27,380 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

83.65%, or 22903 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
12.18%, or 3335 total occurrences, as black,
0.43%, or 118 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.46%, or 126 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.49%, or 408 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.79%, or 490 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

How many distinct last names exist in the United States of America?

How does one estimate/guess that number? The first source that comes to mind is the result of the latest available census. We know that 2000 year census presents us with a little over 150,000 unique surnames. The least po...

Longest last names

The 2000 USA census contains more than 150,000 surnames. The longest surnames contain 15 characters each. There are 23 names like that. There could be more of those last names in reality. Firstly because it has been 10+ years since the survey and we could have gotten...