Cnut is used as a family name or surname in England, Denmark. It is 4 characters long in length.
Cnut is the form of the Canute. From Scandinavian personal name meaning "knot".
The variation of Knott. Dweller at a rocky hilltop; descendant of Knut meaning "hill, or white-haired".
Family name is variation of Knott. Rocky summit; also Knut or Canute.
The variation of Knott. The Scandinavian Cnut or Canute, a personal name. The sandpiperor knot-bird, derives its name from King Canute . Britannia, 971. And Drayton in his Polyolbion sings-
"The Knot that called was Canutus' bird of old,
Of that great King of Danes his name that still doth hold;
His appetite to please that far and near was sought,
For him, as some have said, from Denmark hither brought."
A Cnut appears in the Domesday of Derby, Nottingham, and York, and he was evidently either a Dane or of Danish extraction.
"Our surname of Knot, being so made by abbreviation, some say should more rightly be Kanut."
Cnut is the variant form of the Notman. Note is a northern provincialism for neat or black cattle, and consequently Not-man is identical, not with coward, as might appear, but with con-herd! It is Noteman without prefix in Hundred Rolls.