Emitt

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 20 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
20
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Emitt by the numbers

Emitt was given to 20 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 39 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Emitt

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Emitt. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Emmittwhole or universal; a form of Emmett526 in the US (2017)
  • Emett14 in the US (2017)
  • Emit8 in the US (2017)
  • Emmetttruth; form of Immanuel3,156 in the US (2017)
  • Emmettruth; a form of Emmanuel218 in the US (2017)
  • Eliotgod is my god; a form of Elijah205 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Emitt

Names that are said the same way as Emitt, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Emmittruth; a form of Emmett102 in the US (2017)
  • Emettruth19 in the US (2017)
  • Emmettewhole; a form of Emma or Emmett6 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Emitt

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