Emmitt

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Emmitt is ranked 679th among boys in 2024 (400 births). Its best rank was 424th, in 1905.

Rank in 2024: #679down 20 from 2023
Births in 2024: 4000.02% of boys
Peak year: 2019571 births
Best rank: #424in 1905
Since 1880: 13,901people given the name

Babies named Emmitt, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

13,901 boys have been named Emmitt in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 571 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 2010s alone account for 32%. It has spent 100 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 Emmitt
1880s	111
1890s	139
1900s	214
1910s	655
1920s	1,000
1930s	788
1940s	849
1950s	860
1960s	560
1970s	392
1980s	259
1990s	522
2000s	787
2010s	4,385
2020s	2,380

In 2019, its biggest year

Emmitt was the 501st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2019 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, William and Elijah. See all of 2019.

Names that rose and fell with Emmitt

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

Emmit4,223 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.