girls:
7 births since 2021
#5709 (0th percentile)
boys:
811 births since 1912
#3776 (18th percentile)
overall:
818 births since 1912
#6921 (11th percentile)
The name Emmette is the #6,921 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 818 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 10.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,776 (17.6% percentile) for all time with 811 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,709 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 7 births since 2021.
Emmette first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 2021 for girls). Birth data for Emmette is available in 78 out of the 112 years between 1912 and 2023 (78 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Emmette has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Emmette reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #515) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 22 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Emmette ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 17.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Emmette reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #934) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Emmette".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Emmette. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 32.5% confident that Emmette is pronounced as EH-miht, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-meht, at 27.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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