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Emett

Boy · EM-it · Germanic

Emett is a boys' name of Germanic origin, meaning “whole, universal”. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).

What does Emett mean?

Germanic: spelling of Emmett, an English surname from a pet form of Emma

“whole, universal”

Emmett comes from a medieval pet form of Emma; the Irish patriot Robert Emmet made the surname famous.

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Is Emett a girl's or a boy's name?

Emett is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Emett in the US?

Rank in 2025
#12,003among boys
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 340,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Emett, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,616th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 25 boys. It first appears in the records in 1883.

2025 had fewer boys named Emett than any year since 2008.

Half of all the boys named Emett in the US since 1880 were born between 1924 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 3,441 boys in the US were given Emett or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #115, up from #12,003 for this spelling alone.

1883Busiest: 25 in 20152025
Emett in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20255#12,003
202412#6,827
202311#7,284
202215#5,870
202111#7,084
202012#6,616
201915#5,808
201813#6,341
201714#6,056
201616#5,551
201525#4,078
201414#5,993
201312#6,598
201216#5,476
201115#5,670
201013#6,353
200911#7,231
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19216#3,867
19208#3,207
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19158#2,828
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