female NAME · CURRENTLY #16195

Knightley

NIGHT-lee

“Knight’s clearing or meadow, from Old English cniht, “knight” or “servant,” and leah, “clearing.””

An English surname-derived given name.

surname-deriveddistinctive
SSA POPULARITY HISTORY

How Knightley has traveled through time

82015 112020 52025
LATEST YEAR20255 births
PEAK RANK#8282in 2021
CURRENT USAGE100% F0% M

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration. SSA excludes names with fewer than five occurrences in a geographic area.

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