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First name origin & meaning:

English: Outdoorsman

First name variations: Knowlie, Knowls, Nowles

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English: topographic name for someone who lived at the top of a hill or by a hillock, from a genitive or plural form of Middle English knoll ‘hilltop’, ‘hillock’ (Old English cnoll; see Knoll), or habitational name from any of the many places named with this word.
  2. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Tnúthghail (see Newell).

This name appears in the following lists: Pop Princes and Princesses