Emet
Emet was given to 28 boys in 2025, #3,876 among boys’ names; 379 Americans have been recorded with it since 1922 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emet by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Emet?
#3,876 among boys’ names, 2025
Emet rose from #4,202 in 2015 to #3,876 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 12.5 to 16.4 per million.
36 babies in 2024, the peak
Emet peaked in 2024, when 36 boys were given it, #3,290 among boys’ names. The 28 births of 2025 are 78% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #3,876 | 16.4 |
| 2024 | 36 | #3,290 | 20.9 |
| 2023 | 24 | #4,375 | 14.0 |
| 2022 | 28 | #3,914 | 16.0 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,182 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,586 | 12.2 |
| 2019 | 25 | #4,144 | 13.9 |
| 2018 | 21 | #4,643 | 11.6 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,638 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,832 | 10.5 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #4,202 | 12.5 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,929 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,351 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,546 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 14 | #6,034 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,327 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,233 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,489 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,604 | 2.4 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,359 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,720 | 3.6 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,395 | 4.5 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,501 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Emet a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emet has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emet: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emet, and how old are they?
An estimated 366 Americans named Emet and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 12. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 296 people named Emet (16 women and girls, 280 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 218 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Emet?
Emet is a less common spelling of Emmett: SSA has recorded 379 Emet and 78,872 Emmett since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 91,855 babies since 1880, Emet is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 3,159 babies (<1%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Emet
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Emet and names like it
- Compare Emet and EmmettBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Emet.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Emet alive today were born 2013-2025.
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