Emitt
Emitt was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,151 among boys’ names; 637 Americans have been recorded with it since 1900 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Emitt by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Emitt?
#9,151 among boys’ names, 2025
Emitt fell from #3,719 in 2015 to #9,151 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 15.1 to 4.7 per million.
39 babies in 2014, the peak
Emitt peaked in 2014, when 39 boys were given it, #2,945 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,151 | 4.7 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,409 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 15 | #5,947 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,850 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,785 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,215 | 10.0 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,849 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,790 | 10.8 |
| 2016 | 22 | #4,511 | 11.6 |
| 2015 | 29 | #3,719 | 15.1 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 39 | #2,945 | 20.3 |
| 2013 | 28 | #3,685 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,548 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,138 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,454 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,234 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,240 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,348 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 7 | #9,874 | 3.4 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,361 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,408 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,406 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,807 | 3.1 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,155 | 2.3 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,112 | 2.4 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,091 | 4.0 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,448 | 6.7 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,798 | 5.6 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,249 | 4.9 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,679 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,691 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,704 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,406 | 5.8 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,174 | 6.7 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,510 | 5.8 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,340 | 10.9 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,649 | 9.3 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,302 | 11.7 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,767 | 8.9 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,781 | 9.0 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,398 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 18 | #1,918 | 15.9 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,155 | 13.7 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,069 | 14.7 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,292 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,162 | 14.1 |
| 1919 | 18 | #1,830 | 18.4 |
| 1918 | 9 | #2,940 | 8.9 |
| 1917 | 9 | #2,797 | 9.7 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,425 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,498 | 11.8 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,323 | 13.7 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,714 | 21.5 |
| 1912 | 8 | #1,933 | 18.6 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,188 | 42.7 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,139 | 45.4 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,209 | 39.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Emitt a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Emitt has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Emitt: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Emitt, and how old are they?
An estimated 348 Americans named Emitt and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (55% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 395 people named Emitt (3 women and girls, 392 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 305 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% 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 Emitt?
Emitt is a less common spelling of Emmitt: SSA has recorded 637 Emitt and 14,249 Emmitt since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 106,104 babies since 1880, Emitt is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 3,498 babies (<1%), the sixth 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.
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