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Emmet

#1,555 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Emmett

Emmet has been given to 6,966 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #1,555 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 262 recorded.

Babies named Emmet, 2025

1 in 30,100

Emmet over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emmet: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Emmett

surname transfer

What Emmet means

Emmet is a variant of Emmett.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From a Middle English diminutive of the female given name Emma.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Emmet (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Emmet is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Emmet is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Emmett and Emma.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,966 boys were recorded with the name Emmet between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 262 in 2015; its best national rank was #285 in 1880.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,289 in 2020 to #1,555 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #860 in 2015 to #1,555 in 2025.

How common is Emmet?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 30,100
110 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 15,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,555
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
20,891 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emmet sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 20,891 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emmet. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emmets were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emmet was born before 1997 — so the typical Emmet is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
48.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,382
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 27.8% of all recorded uses (1,940).

Is Emmet rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+37
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−266
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−695
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.42×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.0%
Peak was 2015 (262)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#285
1880

Spellings of Emmet

Emmet is not the most common spelling — Elmer is, with 54.2% against Emmet's 2.9%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Emmet is used

Across 2016–2025, Emmet was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 4,000 boys, against 1 in 13,341 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

125 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in 4,000
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 4,545
  3. 3Michigan1 in 5,000
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in 6,250
  5. 5Illinois1 in 7,143
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 7,143
  7. 7North Dakota1 in 7,143
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 9,091

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Emmet around the world

Where Emmet ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–2022
    #414
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    1965–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1970–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Emmet

People whose public names include Emmet, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Emmet in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Emmet. Linked forms have their own page here.

EmmettEmmittEmeterioRemmet

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Emmet by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,555
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 266
Best rank ever
#285
1880
Peak year
2015
262 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,966
Count in 2025
110

Names similar to Emmet

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

EmmitEmmittEmmaEmmettAhmetMehmetEmmausEmmersonEmmanuelKemetEmmetteEmetEmmanualEmmerichEmmertEmmonsEmmerickEmmanuelleEmmeryEmmitteEmmauelEmmyttEmmerEmmiliano

Names with a curve like Emmet

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Emmet, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

SmithLinusRansomLeopoldAbnerEnochEdisonAnselHamptonLucienNolenAlpha

Sibling names for Emmet

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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