Emmitt
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #769 for boys in 2025, 333 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1905 · 26 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 14,238since 1880
Emmitt over time
Rank among boys' names. Emmitt has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #769 | 333 |
| 2024 | — | #680 | 402 | |
| 2023 | — | #659 | 415 | |
| 2022 | — | #598 | 470 | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #545 | 536 |
| 2020 | — | #510 | 560 | |
| 2019 | — | #500 | 571 | |
| 2018 | — | #536 | 523 | |
| 2017 | — | #535 | 529 | |
| 2016 | — | #523 | 565 | |
| 2015 | — | #583 | 477 | |
| 2014 | — | #606 | 442 | |
| 2013 | — | #623 | 394 | |
| 2012 | — | #660 | 359 | |
| 2011 | — | #785 | 284 | |
| 2010 | — | #870 | 242 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,226 | 146 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,467 | 112 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,488 | 107 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,605 | 90 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,619 | 84 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,238 | 51 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,987 | 58 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,295 | 45 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,050 | 51 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,256 | 43 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,098 | 45 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,768 | 57 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,599 | 63 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,334 | 81 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,430 | 69 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,383 | 71 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,554 | 58 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,412 | 30 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,544 | 27 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,952 | 21 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,784 | 22 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,305 | 26 | |
| 1987 | — | #2,725 | 19 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,694 | 37 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,866 | 31 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,885 | 29 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,912 | 15 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,341 | 21 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,996 | 27 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,765 | 32 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,487 | 40 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,570 | 36 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,607 | 34 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,572 | 34 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,478 | 36 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,439 | 36 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,376 | 37 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,163 | 49 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,309 | 41 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,178 | 49 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,152 | 46 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,100 | 46 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,030 | 50 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,016 | 51 | |
| 1965 | — | #934 | 62 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,059 | 51 | |
| 1963 | — | #936 | 64 | |
| 1962 | — | #973 | 61 | |
| 1961 | — | #915 | 69 | |
| 1960 | — | #981 | 60 | |
| 1959 | — | #871 | 77 | |
| 1958 | — | #892 | 71 | |
| 1957 | — | #853 | 77 | |
| 1956 | — | #822 | 82 | |
| 1955 | — | #898 | 68 | |
| 1954 | — | #788 | 83 | |
| 1953 | — | #717 | 99 | |
| 1952 | — | #742 | 90 | |
| 1951 | — | #659 | 113 | |
| 1950 | — | #681 | 100 | |
| 1949 | — | #717 | 92 | |
| 1948 | — | #717 | 87 | |
| 1947 | — | #778 | 78 | |
| 1946 | — | #746 | 78 | |
| 1945 | — | #671 | 80 | |
| 1944 | — | #667 | 86 | |
| 1943 | — | #655 | 95 | |
| 1942 | — | #667 | 93 | |
| 1941 | — | #662 | 85 | |
| 1940 | — | #697 | 75 | |
| 1939 | — | #642 | 85 | |
| 1938 | — | #683 | 78 | |
| 1937 | — | #675 | 78 | |
| 1936 | — | #756 | 64 | |
| 1935 | — | #605 | 92 | |
| 1934 | — | #722 | 72 | |
| 1933 | — | #619 | 87 | |
| 1932 | — | #708 | 76 | |
| 1931 | — | #667 | 80 | |
| 1930 | — | #718 | 76 | |
| 1929 | — | #712 | 76 | |
| 1928 | — | #594 | 108 | |
| 1927 | — | #629 | 100 | |
| 1926 | — | #663 | 90 | |
| 1925 | — | #649 | 96 | |
| 1924 | — | #626 | 104 | |
| 1923 | — | #635 | 102 | |
| 1922 | — | #574 | 123 | |
| 1921 | — | #652 | 98 | |
| 1920 | — | #623 | 103 | |
| 1919 | — | #558 | 115 | |
| 1918 | — | #710 | 79 | |
| 1917 | — | #668 | 80 | |
| 1916 | — | #680 | 76 | |
| 1915 | — | #605 | 90 | |
| 1914 | — | #697 | 54 | |
| 1913 | — | #586 | 56 | |
| 1912 | — | #608 | 45 | |
| 1911 | — | #548 | 30 | |
| 1910 | — | #512 | 30 | |
| 1909 | — | #453 | 31 | |
| 1908 | — | #541 | 22 | |
| 1907 | — | #591 | 18 | |
| 1906 | — | #472 | 22 | |
| 1905 | — | #421 | 26 | |
| 1904 | — | #466 | 21 | |
| 1903 | — | #430 | 22 | |
| 1902 | — | #615 | 13 | |
| 1901 | — | #487 | 16 | |
| 1900 | — | #477 | 23 | |
| 1899 | — | #583 | 12 | |
| 1898 | — | #543 | 15 | |
| 1897 | — | #515 | 15 | |
| 1896 | — | #551 | 14 | |
| 1895 | — | #501 | 16 | |
| 1894 | — | #502 | 16 | |
| 1893 | — | #538 | 13 | |
| 1892 | — | #497 | 16 | |
| 1891 | — | #635 | 9 | |
| 1890 | — | #533 | 13 | |
| 1889 | — | #498 | 14 | |
| 1888 | — | #528 | 14 | |
| 1887 | — | #544 | 11 | |
| 1886 | — | #451 | 16 | |
| 1885 | — | #577 | 11 | |
| 1884 | — | #613 | 10 | |
| 1883 | — | #720 | 7 | |
| 1882 | — | #576 | 11 | |
| 1881 | — | #563 | 10 | |
| 1880 | — | #745 | 7 | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Emmitt was already there! It came in at #745, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1880–1881, when fewer than 11 boys a year got the name.
See more about Emmitt
- 89 spots since 2024 (#680 → #769)
- 259 spots since 2020 (#510 → #769)
- 186 spots since 2015 (#583 → #769)
- Biggest jump: 356 spots in 2010 (#1,226 → #870)
- Biggest drop: 151 spots in 1936 (#605 → #756)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1905 at #421 (26 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 101 yrs · run 1880–1963
- Highest: 1 in 3,082 boys born in 2020 were named Emmitt (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,129 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- Its best rank, #421 in 1905, was only 1 in 5,089 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.8% of all boys named Emmitt (4,386) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 111 | #451 (1886) | #582 |
| 1890s | 139 | #497 (1892) | #540 |
| 1900s | 214 | #421 (1905) | #495 |
| 1910s | 655 | #512 (1910) | #617 |
| 1920s | 1,000 | #574 (1922) | #636 |
| 1930s | 788 | #605 (1935) | #680 |
| 1940s | 849 | #655 (1943) | #698 |
| 1950s | 860 | #659 (1951) | #792 |
| 1960s | 560 | #915 (1961) | #1,010 |
| 1970s | 392 | #1,163 (1972) | #1,418 |
| 1980s | 259 | #1,694 (1986) | #2,227 |
| 1990s | 522 | #1,334 (1996) | #1,907 |
| 2000s | 787 | #1,226 (2009) | #1,823 |
| 2010s | 4,386 | #500 (2019) | #622 |
| 2020s | 2,716 | #510 (2020) | #627 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Emmitt in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 328,172 of them was named Emmitt, which outranked 13.7% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,425 names at #15,251; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 3,264 of them was named Emmitt, which outranked 96.1% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).