Knott Family History
Knott Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Knotte from knotte ‘knot’ related to possibly confused with but not historically identical with Cnut (Old Norse Knútr Knut originally a nickname from Old Norse knútr ‘knot’) found Latinized as Canutus. German: variant of Knoth . English: nickname perhaps for a short thick-set person or for a person with a prominent tumour wart or boil from a transferred use of Middle English knot(te) ‘hard or firm mass such as that formed by a knot tied in a string’. English: topographic name from Middle English knot(te) ‘protuberance small hill’ for someone who lived on or by a small hill or a habitational name for someone from a place called with this word such as one of those in Westmorland or Cumberland or Knott End in Lancashire. English: modern variant of Nott with which the name may have been confused.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022