Meaning not yet researched.
Emmit: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #480 in 1886.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #480 in 1886; #3,334 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Emmit in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,334 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1886, at #480.
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Emmit: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 boys in 2025. Peak: #480 in 1886 · most boys in one year: 137 (2012).
In 2025, 35 US boys were named Emmit, making it the 3,334th most common boys’ name of the year, up 76 places from #3,410 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 34 boys named Emmit in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #480, reached in 1886. The most boys given the name in a single year was 137, in 2012. For comparison, it was #1,408 in 2015 and #1,761 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Emmit in 137 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 5 babies. In all, 4,260 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,080 babies named Emmit.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 733 US boys were named Emmit; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 121. In 2025 that was about 1 in 48,802 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Emmett (78,872 babies since 1880), Emmitt (14,249 babies since 1880) and Emmet (6,966 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Emmit in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 35 | #3,334 |
| 2024 | — | — | 34 | #3,410 |
| 2023 | — | — | 44 | #2,855 |
| 2022 | — | — | 59 | #2,386 |
| 2021 | — | — | 74 | #2,005 |
| 2020 | — | — | 85 | #1,780 |
| 2019 | — | — | 81 | #1,853 |
| 2018 | — | — | 96 | #1,666 |
| 2017 | — | — | 104 | #1,572 |
| 2016 | — | — | 121 | #1,435 |
| 2015 | — | — | 122 | #1,408 |
| 2014 | — | — | 120 | #1,404 |
| 2013 | — | — | 129 | #1,331 |
| 2012 | — | — | 137 | #1,281 |
| 2011 | — | — | 97 | #1,589 |
| 2010 | — | — | 73 | #1,930 |
| 2009 | — | — | 41 | #2,917 |
| 2008 | — | — | 43 | #2,798 |
| 2007 | — | — | 31 | #3,464 |
| 2006 | — | — | 36 | #3,044 |
| 2005 | — | — | 31 | #3,264 |
| 2004 | — | — | 33 | #3,040 |
| 2003 | — | — | 23 | #3,763 |
| 2002 | — | — | 26 | #3,384 |
| 2001 | — | — | 19 | #4,174 |
| 2000 | — | — | 11 | #6,039 |
| 1999 | — | — | 21 | #3,622 |
| 1998 | — | — | 14 | #4,723 |
| 1997 | — | — | 17 | #3,933 |
| 1996 | — | — | 14 | #4,450 |
| 1995 | — | — | 16 | #3,922 |
| 1994 | — | — | 20 | #3,364 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #7,941 |
| 1992 | — | — | 10 | #5,357 |
| 1990 | — | — | 12 | #4,485 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #7,268 |
| 1988 | — | — | 10 | #4,537 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,360 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,510 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #6,624 |
| 1983 | — | — | 11 | #3,695 |
| 1982 | — | — | 10 | #4,030 |
| 1981 | — | — | 11 | #3,678 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #5,106 |
| 1979 | — | — | 14 | #3,055 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,691 |
| 1977 | — | — | 9 | #3,934 |
| 1976 | — | — | 9 | #3,809 |
| 1974 | — | — | 12 | #3,007 |
| 1973 | — | — | 11 | #3,076 |
| 1972 | — | — | 9 | #3,424 |
| 1971 | — | — | 9 | #3,457 |
| 1970 | — | — | 16 | #2,327 |
| 1969 | — | — | 20 | #1,882 |
| 1968 | — | — | 16 | #2,055 |
| 1967 | — | — | 10 | #2,655 |
| 1966 | — | — | 13 | #2,261 |
| 1965 | — | — | 10 | #2,669 |
| 1964 | — | — | 15 | #2,139 |
| 1963 | — | — | 7 | #3,425 |
| 1962 | — | — | 14 | #2,214 |
| 1961 | — | — | 14 | #2,273 |
| 1960 | — | — | 19 | #1,874 |
| 1959 | — | — | 19 | #1,881 |
| 1958 | — | — | 27 | #1,515 |
| 1957 | — | — | 27 | #1,522 |
| 1956 | — | — | 27 | #1,517 |
| 1955 | — | — | 18 | #1,863 |
| 1954 | — | — | 16 | #1,985 |
| 1953 | — | — | 15 | #2,062 |
| 1952 | — | — | 23 | #1,592 |
| 1951 | — | — | 24 | #1,533 |
| 1950 | — | — | 18 | #1,761 |
| 1949 | — | — | 30 | #1,329 |
| 1948 | — | — | 27 | #1,412 |
| 1947 | — | — | 40 | #1,154 |
| 1946 | — | — | 30 | #1,282 |
| 1945 | — | — | 27 | #1,280 |
| 1944 | — | — | 15 | #1,836 |
| 1943 | — | — | 25 | #1,410 |
| 1942 | — | — | 24 | #1,432 |
| 1941 | — | — | 23 | #1,426 |
| 1940 | — | — | 35 | #1,112 |
| 1939 | — | — | 44 | #946 |
| 1938 | — | — | 42 | #983 |
| 1937 | — | — | 31 | #1,191 |
| 1936 | — | — | 51 | #854 |
| 1935 | — | — | 31 | #1,207 |
| 1934 | — | — | 34 | #1,135 |
| 1933 | — | — | 42 | #985 |
| 1932 | — | — | 47 | #953 |
| 1931 | — | — | 62 | #797 |
| 1930 | — | — | 48 | #983 |
| 1929 | — | — | 55 | #905 |
| 1928 | — | — | 56 | #893 |
| 1927 | — | — | 53 | #954 |
| 1926 | — | — | 48 | #997 |
| 1925 | — | — | 77 | #750 |
| 1924 | — | — | 46 | #1,048 |
| 1923 | — | — | 65 | #843 |
| 1922 | — | — | 71 | #795 |
| 1921 | — | — | 66 | #850 |
| 1920 | — | — | 52 | #961 |
| 1919 | — | — | 73 | #754 |
| 1918 | — | — | 59 | #861 |
| 1917 | — | — | 53 | #876 |
| 1916 | — | — | 49 | #901 |
| 1915 | — | — | 54 | #836 |
| 1914 | — | — | 24 | #1,198 |
| 1913 | — | — | 25 | #1,002 |
| 1912 | — | — | 24 | #922 |
| 1911 | — | — | 16 | #837 |
| 1910 | — | — | 9 | #1,141 |
| 1909 | — | — | 16 | #692 |
| 1908 | — | — | 8 | #1,045 |
| 1907 | — | — | 14 | #713 |
| 1906 | — | — | 13 | #687 |
| 1905 | — | — | 11 | #758 |
| 1904 | — | — | 8 | #912 |
| 1903 | — | — | 7 | #939 |
| 1902 | — | — | 7 | #960 |
| 1901 | — | — | 9 | #744 |
| 1900 | — | — | 12 | #755 |
| 1899 | — | — | 13 | #562 |
| 1897 | — | — | 5 | #1,111 |
| 1896 | — | — | 8 | #846 |
| 1895 | — | — | 9 | #754 |
| 1894 | — | — | 8 | #806 |
| 1893 | — | — | 13 | #548 |
| 1892 | — | — | 7 | #881 |
| 1891 | — | — | 6 | #881 |
| 1889 | — | — | 7 | #824 |
| 1888 | — | — | 8 | #771 |
| 1886 | — | — | 15 | #480 |
| 1884 | — | — | 7 | #799 |
| 1883 | — | — | 5 | #942 |
| 1882 | — | — | 5 | #981 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).