How Many People Are Named Emit?
people named Emit are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 2,494,779 people in the US has this name
Based on 390 babies named Emit in Social Security records from 1881 to 2023, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
17 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Emit in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Emit alive today is about 17 years old, and 88% are under 30. Half of them were between 6 and 13 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Emit first appears in the records in 1881 and was given most often in 1922, to 17 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2023.
Babies given the name each year, 1881 to 2023
🏆 Rank History
Emit has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #848, in 1888.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #848 (1888) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #7,812 in the 2010s |
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