Knights Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

Families named Knights share their surname's story with Knight, of which it is a variant.

Knights adds a patronymic ending to Knight, marking ‘son of’ or ‘of the family of’. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Knights, so the heraldry linked to Knight is a starting point, not an automatic right. Get the complete Knights report, with a museum-style coat of arms.