'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as KNOWLES.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

The most likely matches are shown first.

BOWLES
ROWLES
POWLES
NOWELL
NOBLES
MOWLES
VOWLES
KNOWLES
COWLES
FOWLES
HOWLES
KNOLES
KOHLES
KNOBLER
NOLES
NOWLEN
NOWLEY
TOWLES
KANELOS
KINLOCH
KOMLOS
KOLES
KINLOCK
KNOBLE
KNOWER
KNOWELL
KNOLE
KNOWS

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

The following words are slight variants of KNOWLES that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.

KNOWELS KONWLES KNWOLES NKOWLES KNOWLE KNOWLEA KNOWLESA KNOWLESE KNOWLESI KNOWLESO