girls:
268 births since 1917
#5448 (5th percentile)
boys:
72.6k births since 1880
#385 (92nd percentile)
overall:
72.8k births since 1880
#852 (89th percentile)
The name Emmett is the #852 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 72,840 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 89.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #385 (91.6% percentile) for all time with 72,572 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,448 (4.7% percentile) for all time with 268 births since 1917.
Emmett has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1917 for girls).
The name Emmett has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Emmett reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 89.0% percentile (ranked #103) with 1,952 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 1,952 births per million (ranked 89.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1988, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Emmett ranks #115 for boys (87.5% percentile) with 1,672 births per million, which is 85.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Emmett reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #926) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Emmett is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #926 (2.2% percentile) with 15 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Emmett".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Emmett. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.5% confident that Emmett is pronounced as EH-miht, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-muht, at 39.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like EH1 M IH0 T) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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