Emmet

Where Emmet comes from

From a Middle English diminutive of the female given name Emma.
— Wiktionary's entry for Emmet
Emmet through the years
  1. 1879
    Emmet D. Boyle born
    American politician
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #283 among boys with 34 babies in the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1886
    Emmet Fox born
    American New Thought writer
  4. 1887
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #631.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Emmet D. Boyle · American politician, 1879–1926
  • Emmet Fox · American New Thought writer, 1886–1951
  • Emmet O'Neal · American politician, 1853–1922
  • Emmet M. Walsh · Catholic bishop, 1892–1968
  • Emmet Lavery · American writer, 1902–1986

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.