Knox Family History
Knox Name Meaning
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.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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Knox
Name Distribution of Knox Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Knox families
 218 - 434  73 - 217 |
 1 - 72  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Knox families
|
299 - 595 100 - 298 |
1 - 99 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Knox families
|
391 - 779 131 - 390 |
1 - 130 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Knox Family Origin
Knox Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Knox
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Knox Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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