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Knowles (surname)

Knowles () is an English surname of mixed Anglo-Saxon and Viking origins. This is a locality name meaning 'at the knoll,' a hill or summit, derived from Old English word cnolle and Old Norse word “knollr” meaning “hilltop” and thus describes a person who lived at such a place. Literally “The people of the hill.”

It can also be an Anglicized version of the Irish name Ó Tnúthghail. It literally means people of the tribe.

Etymology

From Old English cnoll (“summit”), from Proto-Germanic *knudan-, *knudla-, *knulla- (“lump”), possibly related to cnotta.

Related to Old Norse knollr (found only in names of places), Dutch knol (“tuber”), Swedish knöl (“tuber”), Danish knold (“hillock, clod, tuber”) and German Knolle (“bulb”).

from a general group of Germanic words that includes English knob, knock, knuckle, knoll, knurl.

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  • Oliver Knowles, instrumentalist for the music group Snow Ghosts

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