Entry № 3089 · Spanish origin

Esmeralda Esmeralda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ es-meh-RAHL-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Emerald"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "emerald".

Esmeralda is the Spanish and Portuguese word for "emerald" — from the Greek smaragdos, the Greek-Roman word for the precious green gemstone.

Today Esmeralda sits in the U.S. top 400.

Emerald. The Roma heroine of Notre-Dame.

The name in its native script.

Esmeralda
Transliteration
Esmeralda
Pronunciation
/ ˌɛz.məˈrɑːl.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Esmeralda stands.

Esmeralda does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Esmeraldas before her.

Real people
Esmeralda Pimentel
Mexican actress.
born 1989
In fiction
Esméralda
Heroine of Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris.
1831 novel

Names connected to Esmeralda.

The number behind Esmeralda.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Esmeralda reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.