Emmett is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Emmett isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Emmett ranks 126. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 18 were named Emmett. In the entire USA, approximately 61,834 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Emmett. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
The meaning of the name Emmett is ‘entire, universal’ or ‘power, strength’. It is derived from the Old English word ‘æmetten’ which means ‘entire, whole, universal’ or ‘power, strength’. It is a strong and classic name that has a bit of a vintage feel, that has been in use since the Middle Ages.
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Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett (1815-1904)
The US-American singer-songwriter and entertainer became famous for the well-known folk song Dixie. It was first performed in New York City on 4 April 1859. The song was very popular with the Confederate States Army and is even said to have been one of former US President Abraham Lincoln's favourites.
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Emmett Lathrop Brown, Ph.D., commonly called »Doc Brown«, is a fictional character from the science fiction film trilogy »Back to the Future« (1985, 1989, 1990). In the movies the scientist invents a time machine that he first put into a DeLorean sports car and later into a steam engine locomotive. In 2008 Empire magazine named the character as one of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time. »Doc Brown« is played by US actor Christopher Lloyd.
When you hear the name Emmett, you might first think of people. But did you know that there are also places with the name Emmett? Are you also called Emmett? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
There are a various places in different states of the U.S. that are called »Emmett«, for example in Idaho, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Texas, and West Virginia.
stands in Greenwood, Mississippi (USA). It recognizes the 14-year-old boy who was abducted and lynched in 1955. His brutal murder sparked the Civil Rights Movement.
»Emmet« is the name of a mountain in the State of Hesse, Germany.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Emmett annualy. This means that there have been boys named Emmett who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Emmett have consistently been special. Since 2000, however, the name has experienced a certain popularity: in 2021, it holds its present record of #105 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Emmett was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Emmett has never been ranked higher than #105. In 2022, he rivaled the 112 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 3,331 boys named Emmett were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Emmett were born, there have been 169 newborns who received this name.
Everyone knows him, everyone loves him and still he’s different from the mainstream: Emmett occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, only 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Emmett is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Emmett is not one of those names that everyone encounters in his neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, captures attention and is something special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 61,834 men and boys of all generations bear the name Emmett – that is one in 2,700. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Utah, where one in 400 men and boys is called Emmett, while it is particularly rare in Delaware, where you have to ask an average of 8,498 men for their name to get Emmett as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 3.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With six letters, the name Emmett is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.8%, E as the first letter in boys' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the boys' names that start with an E, Edward is the most common.
If your name is Emmett and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Emmett, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Emmett sounds like this:
