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Emmette vs Emmy

American parents have registered 12,963 Emmys since 1880, against 819 Emmettes. Emmy is still ahead, with 695 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Emmette against Emmy, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Emmette Emmy

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 130 years in which either name was published, Emmy for 124 years and Emmette for 6 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.

9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Emmette Emmy
Total US births 81912,963
Most in one year 21695
Babies in 2025 under 5695
Estimated living today 34012,000
Median age today 6210
Peak year 19182025
Best rank 1,648th boys445th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked445th
First recorded 19121885
Girls / boys 7 / 81212,963 / 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 Emmettes alive today are over 62; half the Emmys are over 10. That is 52 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Emmette and Emmy.