Knowledge is an English word name that means "understanding" or "learning", chosen the way earlier generations picked virtue names such as Justice and Patience. It belongs to a group of aspirational word names, among them Wisdom, Sincere and Legend, that have grown in American use since the 2000s. Knowledge stood at number 4006 in 2000, reached number 1020 in 2020 and ranks number 1303 in 2025.