Boy · Old Norse
Knud
Say it: KNOOTH
Meaning
From Old Norse knútr 'knot'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A royal Danish name from the Viking age, common across Scandinavia into the 20th century.
Its wave through time
No birth counts are recorded for this name in the records loaded here: it has been given to fewer than five babies a year, or not at all, since records began.
Through the ages
- The Viking and Anglo-Saxon Age700 to 1100
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
| Old Norse | Knútr |
|---|---|
| Swedish | Knut |
| Norwegian | Knut |
| English | Cnut |
Famous bearers
- Cnut the Great, king of England, Denmark and Norway
- Knud Rasmussen, Danish-Greenlandic polar explorer
- Knut Hamsun, Norwegian novelist
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- Royal and noble genealogies
- Viking Age runestone inscriptions
- National birth statistics of European countries source
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