Emmet vs Emmie
American parents have registered 10,387 Emmies since 1880, against 6,966 Emmets. Emmie is still ahead, with 407 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Emmet Emmie
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Emmie for 91 years and Emmet for 55 years. The lead changed hands 45 times.
- 1880–1885 Emmet ahead
- 1889–1912 Emmie ahead
- 1918–1921 Emmet ahead
- 1929–1950 Emmie ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1951–1973 Emmet ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1980–1990 Emmie ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1991–1998 Emmet ahead
- 1999–2025 Emmie ahead, apart from one short spell
33 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Emmet | Emmie | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 6,966 | 10,387 |
| Most in one year | 262 | 510 |
| Babies in 2025 | 110 | 407 |
| Estimated living today | 4,400 | 7,600 |
| Median age today | 12 | 8 |
| Peak year | 2015 | 2018 |
| Best rank | 859th boys | 598th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 1,554th | 694th |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 6,966 | 10,387 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Emmets alive today are over 12; half the Emmies are over 8. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Emmet Iowa (2.9×), Minnesota (2.8×), Massachusetts (2.0×)
- Emmie Utah (4.4×), Georgia (4.0×), South Carolina (4.0×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Emmet | Emmie |
|---|---|---|
| England and Wales | 125 | 4,424 |
| Ireland | 2,134 | 259 |
| Northern Ireland | 210 | 141 |
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Emmet and Emmie.