Emmit

Where Emmit comes from

Emmit hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #943 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1886
    Peak, #470
    15 babies named Emmit — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1887
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1959
    Emmit King born
    American athletics competitor
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Emmit King · American athletics competitor, 1959–2021

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.