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Emmit

#3,333 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Emmit has been given to 4,260 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #3,333 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 137 recorded.

Babies named Emmit, 2025

1 in 94,700

Emmit over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Emmit: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Emmit means

Emmit is a given name.

The naming story behind Emmit

Wikidata records Emmit as a given name. The entity identifier is Q111443773, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,260 boys were recorded with the name Emmit between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 137 in 2012; its best national rank was #480 in 1886.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,780 in 2020 to #3,333 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,408 in 2015 to #3,333 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Emmit?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 94,700
35 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 48,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,333
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
65,655 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Emmit 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Emmit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Emmits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Emmit was born before 1960 — so the typical Emmit is around 65 today.

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
25.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,356
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 25.4% of all recorded uses (1,080).

Is Emmit 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
+75
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,553
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,925
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.29×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
25.5%
Peak was 2012 (137)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#480
1886

Spellings of Emmit

Emmit is not the most common spelling — Emmett is, with 46.9% against Emmit's 2.5%.

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 Emmit is used

Across 2016–2025, Emmit was most concentrated in Wisconsin — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 40,145 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Wisconsin1 in 9,091
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 10,000
  3. 3Missouri1 in 14,286
  4. 4Indiana1 in 20,000
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 25,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 25,000
  7. 7Oregon1 in 25,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 33,333

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.

Emmit around the world

Where Emmit 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
    2023–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2003–2020
    #1,914
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1995–2006
    #657
    in 2006

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

Notable people named Emmit

People whose public names include Emmit, 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.

Emmit in other languages

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

Emmitt

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

Emmit by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,333
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,553
Best rank ever
#480
1886
Peak year
2012
137 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,260
Count in 2025
35

Names similar to Emmit

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

EmmetEmmaEmmittAmitKermitSummitEmmettEmmausEmmersonEmmetteEmmanualEmmerichEmmertEmmanuelSumitEmmonsEmitEmmerickEmmanuelleSamitEmmeryNimitEmmitteEmmauel

Names with a curve like Emmit

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

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Sibling names for Emmit

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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