Emmet

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Emmet is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 108 births. Its best rank was 285th, in 1880.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 1080.01% of boys
Peak year: 2015262 births
Best rank: #285in 1880
Since 1880: 6,856people given the name

Babies named Emmet, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

6,856 boys have been named Emmet in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 262 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1996, and the 2010s alone account for 28%. It has spent 56 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Emmet
1880s	237
1890s	186
1900s	193
1910s	583
1920s	725
1930s	363
1940s	297
1950s	222
1960s	167
1970s	144
1980s	132
1990s	327
2000s	718
2010s	1,940
2020s	622

In 2015, its biggest year

Emmet was the 858th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2015 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2015.

Names that rose and fell with Emmet

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Emmett75,596 ever

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.