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The knox Surname

knox Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish, northern English, and northern Irish: from a genitive or plural form of Old English cnocc ‘round-topped hill’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived on a hilltop, or a habitational name from one of the places in Scotland and northern England named with this element, now spelled Knock, in particular one in Renfrewshire.
  2. The surname is also borne by eastern Ashkenazic Jews as an Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The knox name in History

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Distribution of knox Families in the US in 1920
Number of knox families
 218-434
 73-217		 1-72
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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