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knowles Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name for someone who lived at the top of a hill or by a hillock, from a genitive or plural form of Middle English knoll ‘hilltop’, ‘hillock’ (Old English cnoll; see Knoll), or habitational name from any of the many places named with this word.
  2. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Tnúthghail (see Newell).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of knowles Families in the US in 1920
Number of knowles families
 174-345
 59-173		 1-58
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