Scouts, but not in the US, was where I learnt it as "reef knot", it's pretty much the go-to knot there, to the point where I recall it making up part of a lot of designs on badges and such.
>>eythia+(OP)
It was a reef knot in the Scouts in the UK also. And a granny knot was a reef know where the sequence was repeated (RoL/RoL or LoR/LoR rather than LoR/RoL IIRC.)