Toboggan in much of Ohio.
tuque
Le mot juste.
With pompom it’s a toboggan, a childs hat.
W/O pompom it’s a watch cap.
When I was growing up in Wisconsin, they were usually called “stocking caps.” Now I just call them “knit hats” or “winter hats.”
Just a “winter hat” for me, both here in Florida and in Western New York when I was growing up. However, sometimes I call them a “toque” because it is less unambiguous in that context.
Oh knit cap in the army, as a watch cap was solid fleece.
If Mike Nesmith was wearing it, I’d call it a “Wool Hat” (but I wouldn’t say it to his face 
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Otherwise, I call them watch caps.
If you want a fighting chance of finding a pattern on Ravelry you’ll have your best shot if you search for a “beanie.” That’s what all the hipster douches around here call them and so do the non-hipster non-douches who’re just regular old redneck types who dislike cold ears in winter.
A hat.
“One of those knitted winter hats, you know, with the little pompoms?” if I need to be specific, I guess.
Knit cap or stocking cap.
My mom used to call them an “Uncle Leo hat”. Not sure where that term came from. She definitely didn’t have an Uncle Leo.
Watch cap.
I call it “the thing that makes your noggin looks like a glans.”
Hmm. In the south part of the state I have literally never heard anyone call it that. I can imagine towns where they would, though.
I too call it a “hat” but if I were pressed I would call mine a beanie. It couldn’t have a pompom though. That’s a ski cap.
Hatty McHatterson
I’d call it a ski cap or more simply a winter hat.
I’m familiar with the word “toque” through my Canadian relatives, but wouldn’t call a winter hat that; to me a toque is the hat shown in this picture (of a sign near me): https://www.pinterest.com/pin/389350330262297564/. A beanie has a propellor, a toboggan is a sled, and “stocking cap” is more of a Santa-style hat.
It’s a toque but that word scares and confuses too many Americans so beanie is quickly supplanting it as the norm.
Every so often something like this comes along and makes me wonder what the fuck is wrong with people nowadays.
A “beanie” is—and I quote Wikipedia—“a head-hugging brimless cap, with or without a visor, made from triangular panels of material joined by a button at the crown and seamed together around the sides. Commonly made of cloth or felt material, beanies may also be made from leather or silk.”
Oh, but then it goes on to say “In some U.S. regions and parts of Canada the term ‘beanie’ refers to a knitted cap (often woollen), alternately called a 'stocking cap or ‘toque.’”
The fuck?
So then I image-google “beanie,” and all I get are these stocking caps. WTF? Has the internet been taken over by people from “some U.S. regions and parts of Canada”? Where did all the regular people go? Regular people—you know: people who know what beanies are.
Thirding the Aussie beanie.
In fact they are compulsory head-gear when attending a footy game.
It is peculiar, is it not?
Clearly they are sadly unfamiliar with Calvin and Hobbes, which is enough to make anybody cry:
https://chutzpah.typepad.com/slow_movement/2010/04/calvin-and-hobbes-beanie.html
Now THAT’s a beanie.