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Knoxx

Gender
Boy
Say it
NOKS
Origin
Scottish
US rank, 2025
#2,091 for boys

Knoxx is a boys' name of Scottish origin, meaning “round hill”. In 2025 it ranked 2,091st for boys in the US (70 babies).

What does Knoxx mean?

Scottish: spelling of Knox, a Scottish surname

“round hill”

A spelling of Knox, the surname of John Knox, leader of the 16th-century Scottish Reformation.

Is Knoxx a girl's or a boy's name?

Knoxx is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 70 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Knoxx in the US?

Rank in 2025
2,091st among boys
Babies in 2025
70 about 1 in 24,000 boys
Five-year trend
Rising up 34% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 70 boys in the US were named Knoxx, making it the 2,091st most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,657th. It first appears in the records in 2009.

2025 had the most boys named Knoxx of any year since it first appeared, in 2009.

Half of all the boys named Knoxx in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,949 boys in the US were given Knoxx or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #206, up from #2,091 for this spelling alone.

2009Busiest: 70 in 20252025
Knoxx in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202570#2,091
202462#2,288
202347#2,736
202260#2,354
202140#3,020
202047#2,657
201944#2,807
201843#2,795
201747#2,636
201638#3,058
201524#4,177
201424#4,135
201320#4,619
201219#4,857
201115#5,670
201010#7,585
200910#7,687

Names like Knoxx

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Knoxx

More Scottish names

Every Scottish name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Knoxx: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/knoxx, updated 20 October 2026.