Emmett
given name · Latin script
Meaning: name Emma, introduced into England by the Normans, among whom it was extremely popular
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛmɛt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Emmett is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- CACanada
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
name Emma, introduced into England by the Normans, among whom it was extremely popular. The name is of Gmc origin, originally apparently a hypocoristic form of women’s names with a first element ermin entire.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Emmett is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname transferred from the given name.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylorb. 1793USAmerican politician
- Emmett Lynnb. 1897USAmerican actor (1897-1958)
- Emmett Kellyb. 1898USAmerican clown (1898–1979)
- Van Heflinb. 1910USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1908–1971)
- Gerald Emmett Carterb. 1912CACanadian Catholic cardinal (1912–2003)
- Emmett Leithb. 1927USAmerican physicist and engineer (1927–2005)
- Tom Haydenb. 1939USnot in their usual nameAmerican activist (1939–2016)
- Emmett Tillb. 1941USAfrican-American lynching victim (1941–1955)
- Emmett J. Scanlanb. 1979IEIrish actor
- Emmett Shearb. 1983USAmerican businessperson
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.6K | #9,030 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.5K | #8,636 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.2K | #9,692 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 24 | #75,447 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 24 | #73,510 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 17 | #41,155 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 11 | #66,800 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #257,450 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Emmett a male or female name?
- Emmett is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Emmett mean, and where does it come from?
- name Emma, introduced into England by the Normans, among whom it was extremely popular. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- In which country does Emmett have the most bearers?
- Emmett is most frequently recorded in the United States.
- How do you pronounce Emmett?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛmɛt/ (IPA) for English.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/emmettThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Emmett”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.