[Opinions] Apparently...
Emmet, or Emmot, is a diminutive of female names starting with "Em" - particularly Emma and Emmy. And it only became a male name later on!It's actually explained here on BTN under Emmett. Also - a common diminutive form for names in medieval England was the use of the "ot" ending, for both male and female names, as I'm sure you've noticed in a lot of the names in this list
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Common Female English names 1450-1650 (and their kr8tyve spellings!)  ·  Hufflepuffer  ·  3/29/2009, 11:14 PM
Re: Common Female English names 1450-1650 (and their kr8tyve spellings!)  ·  number1212  ·  3/30/2009, 3:54 PM
It's so interesting that variants were common even back then (m)  ·  LoQuiero  ·  3/30/2009, 3:11 PM
Emmet was a female name?  ·  Mackadal  ·  3/30/2009, 6:23 AM
Apparently...  ·  Hufflepuffer  ·  3/30/2009, 2:44 PM
Re: Common Female English names 1450-1650 (and their kr8tyve spellings!)  ·  Chrysanthemum  ·  3/29/2009, 11:48 PM