How Many People Are Named Emmet?
people named Emmet are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 77,678 people in the US has this name
Based on 6,966 babies named Emmet in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
262 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of EMMETT. It is used in Ireland in honour of the nationalist and rebel Robert Emmet (1778-1803).
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Emmet in English. Counting Emmet and these spellings together, about 63,478 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Emmet in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Emmet alive today is about 21 years old, and 80% are under 30. Half of them were between 7 and 24 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Emmet first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 2015, to 262 babies. In 2025, 110 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Emmet has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #285, in 1880. In 2025 it ranked #1,555.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,555 |
| Best rank | #285 (1880) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,032 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Emmet alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Emmet were born in California than in any other state: about 387 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Emmet was given 3.4 times as often in Iowa, 3 times in Minnesota and 2.4 times in Massachusetts.
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