Esmeralda
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Latin meaning not given in the text; Spanish: “emerald”
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Esmeralda 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.
- 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)
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)
Latin meaning not given in the text; Spanish: “emerald.”
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Esmeralda is read(measured from records)
Esmeralda is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish73%
Del lat. smaragdus y gr. smáragdos, quizá vía prácrito y semítico; 'piedra preciosa verde'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English11%
Latin meaning not given in the text; Spanish: “emerald.”
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
county, NV; pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Esmeralda 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Esmeralda is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, From Spanish esmeralda, 'emerald' (ultimately Greek).
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
From the Spanish vocabulary word esmeralda ‘emerald’. Its occasional modern use as a given name dates from Victor Hugo’s Notre Dame de Paris (1831), in which it is the nickname of the gypsy girl loved by the hunchback 82 Quasimodo; she was given the name because she wore an amulet containing an artificial emerald. Variant: Esmerelda.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Swedish, Esmeralda kommer från det spanska ordet esmeralda ’smaragd’. Den kvinnliga huvud personen i Victor Hugos roman Ringaren i Notre Dame (på svenska 1835–36) bär detta namn.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Esmeralda Ruspolib. 1928ITItalian actress (1928-1988)
- Esmeralda Santiagob. 1948USPuerto Rican writer and actress
- Princess Marie-Esméralda, Lady Moncadab. 1956BEBelgian princess, youngest child of Leopold III of Belgium and Lilian, Princess of Réthy
- Esmeralda Garciab. 1959BRBrazilian sprinter, long and triple jumper
- Esmeralda Calabriab. 1964ITItalian film editor (born 1964)
- Es Devlinb. 1971GBnot in their usual namestage designer
- Caro Emeraldb. 1981NLnot in their usual nameDutch female singer
- Esmeralda Moyab. 1985ESSpanish actress
- Esmeralda Pimentelb. 1988USAmerican Mexican actress and model
- Bella Esmeraldab. 2022daughter of Cristiano Ronaldo
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 97 sources across 49 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 51K | #892 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 20K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 20K | #1,069 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 20K | #1,399 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9.8K | #555 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 9.6K | #283 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 3.9K | #53 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 1.7K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1.3K | #472 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 823 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 130 | #1,069 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 128 | #892 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Esmeralda mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin meaning not given in the text; Spanish: “emerald.” Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- Is Esmeralda a male or female name?
- Esmeralda 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.
- What are other forms of the name Esmeralda?
- In the etymology graph, Zümra, Esmaralda and Smaragda are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Esmeralda have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 51 thousand people named Esmeralda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled esmeralda.
- Where is Esmeralda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Esmeralda 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 Esmeralda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 50,748 people named Esmeralda in 2020, about 1 in 6.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Esmeralda compared with other names?
- In El Salvador, Esmeralda is the 36th most common given name of 28,124 given names recorded there.
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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, “Esmeralda” — the 36th most common given name in El Salvador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.