Emmett
About 78,872 American babies have been named Emmett since 1880, most of them around 2021. In 2025 it ranked 121st. About 59,000 Emmetts are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Emmett boys named Emmett
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 78,872
- Estimated living today
- 59,000
- Median age today
- 8
- Peak year
- 2021
- Best rank
- 103rd
- Rank in 2025
- 121st
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 308 / 78,564
How old the living Emmetts are
born that year still alive today
Of the 78,872 babies given the name since 1880, about 59,000 are alive — 75 in every hundred. Roughly 47,000 of them are children and 4,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
From a Middle English diminutive of the female given name Emma.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Emmetts
- Emmett Till (1941–1955)African-American lynching victim
- Emmett Toppino (1909–1971)athletics competitor
- Gerald Emmett Carter (1912–2003)Canadian Catholic cardinal
- Emmett Chapman (1936–2021)American musician
- Emmett Leith (1927–2005)American physicist and engineer
- Emmett J. Scanlan (born 1979)Irish actor
- Emmett Dalton (1871–1937)American outlaw
- Emmett Shear (born 1983)American businessperson
People named Emmett with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Emmett is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Emmett is most concentrated in Utah (2.1×), Idaho (2.0×), Alaska (1.9×), Washington (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2021
The most popular boys’ names the year Emmett peaked:
Emmett elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Emmett | 816 | 572nd |
| Ireland boys | Emmett | 769 | 137th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Emmett | 224 | 129th |
| France boys | Emmett | 210 | 1,698th |
| Scotland boys | Emmett | 49 | 442nd |
| Switzerland boys | Emmett | 30 | 1,116th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Emmett: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Emmett | 16 | 0.001% | 924th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Emmett | 13 | 0.003% | 427th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Emmett | 1 | 0.002% | 179th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Emmett by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 4 | 439th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Emmett among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Emmett | 33 | 46 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Emmett against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.