Emmit

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Emmit is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 34 births. Its best rank was 480th, in 1886.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 340.00% of boys
Peak year: 2012137 births
Best rank: #480in 1886
Since 1882: 4,223people given the name

Babies named Emmit, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

4,223 boys have been named Emmit in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2012, with 137 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1959, and the 2010s alone account for 26%. It has spent 45 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Emmit
1880s	47
1890s	69
1900s	105
1910s	386
1920s	589
1930s	432
1940s	276
1950s	214
1960s	138
1970s	96
1980s	73
1990s	130
2000s	294
2010s	1,079
2020s	295

In 2012, its biggest year

Emmit was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2012 were Jacob, Mason, Ethan, Noah and William. See all of 2012.

Names that rose and fell with Emmit

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Emmitt13,901 ever

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.