Emmitt — #679 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Emmitt

The Social Security Administration has registered 13,901 babies named Emmitt between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Emmitt currently holds the #679 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 571 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Emmitt performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 4,385 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Emmitt shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,423 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Emmitt in 48 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Emmitt in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 13,901 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.