Emmett

Where Emmett comes from

From a Middle English diminutive of the female given name Emma.
— Wiktionary's entry for Emmett
  • From a surname
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #175 among boys — 74 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1909
    Emmett Toppino born
    athletics competitor
  3. 1941
    Emmett Till born
    African-American lynching victim
  4. 2021
    Peak, #103
    3,663 babies named Emmett — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2021
    The comeback
    Back to #103 after sinking to #995 in 1985.
In the dictionary
  • A male or unisex given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Emmett Till · African-American lynching victim, 1941–1955
  • Emmett Toppino · athletics competitor, 1909–1971
  • Emmett Chapman · American musician, 1936–2021
  • Emmett Leith · American physicist and engineer, 1927–2005
  • Emmett Dalton · American outlaw, 1871–1937

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.