Ësmeralda
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ësmeralda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In El Salvador it is the 36th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Spanish esmeralda (“emerald”), as first used in the novel Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) by Victor Hugo.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 3.7K
- PEPeru≈1 in 4.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 367 (measured from records)
- 1 in 795 (inferred from the name graph)
50,748 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Esmeralda in US United States, SV El Salvador, PE Peru and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Spanish esmeralda (“emerald”), as first used in the novel Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) by Victor Hugo.
Sources 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ësmeralda counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 50,748 | 1 in 6.6K | 51K | Esmeralda | 367 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Esmeralda | 65 |
| BR Brazil | — | 20,005 | 1 in 11K | 20K | — | — |
| CO Colombia | #403 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Esmeralda | 84 |
| ES Spain | #394 | 9,775 | 1 in 5.1K | 9.8K | Esmeralda | 140 |
| PE Peru | #425 | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Esmeralda | 61 |
| SV El Salvador | #36 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Esmeralda | 46 |
| AL Albania | — | 3,866 | 1 in 795 | 3.9K | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1,283 | 1 in 4K | 1.3K | — | 38 |
50,748 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ësmeralda mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish esmeralda (“emerald”), as first used in the novel Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) by Victor Hugo. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 4 other sources.
- Is Ësmeralda a male or female name?
- Ësmeralda is a female 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 Ësmeralda have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 51 thousand people named Ësmeralda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled esmeralda.
- Where is Ësmeralda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ësmeralda is densest in Albania — about 1 in 795 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ësmeralda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 50,748 people named Ësmeralda in 2020, about 1 in 6.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Ësmeralda compared with other names?
- In El Salvador, Ësmeralda is the 36th most common given name of 28,124 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%ABsmeraldaThe 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, “Ësmeralda” — the 36th most common given name in El Salvador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.