Emmitt
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A surname transferred from the given name
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Emmitt is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
- CACanada
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)
A surname transferred from the given name.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ray Dandridgeb. 1913USnot in their usual nameAmerican Hall of Fame baseball player
- Emmitt Petersb. 1940USAmerican dog musher (1940-2020)
- Emmitt Thomasb. 1943USAmerican football player and coach (born 1943)
- Emmitt Fordb. 1943USAmerican politician (1943-2014)
- Emmitt Smithb. 1969USAmerican football player (born 1969)
- Emmitt Williamsb. 1998USAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- Emmitt Martin IIIMemphis police officer involved in the 2023 death of Tyre Nichols
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7.2K | #3,051 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 571 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 565 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 560 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 536 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 529 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 523 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 477 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 470 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 442 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 415 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 402 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- What does the name Emmitt mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname transferred from the given name. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Emmitt a male or female name?
- Emmitt 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.
- In which country does Emmitt have the most bearers?
- Emmitt is most frequently recorded in the United States.
- What are other forms of the name Emmitt?
- In the etymology graph, Emma is a form of the same name in other languages.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/emmittThe 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, “Emmitt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.