Meaning not yet researched.
Esmeralda: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 823 in 2025. Its best rank was #133 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #133 in 1998; #373 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Esmeralda in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#373 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #133.
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Esmeralda: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 823 girls in 2025. Peak: #133 in 1998 · most girls in one year: 2,477 (1998).
In 2025, 823 US girls were named Esmeralda, making it the 373rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 23 places from #350 in 2024. That is 71 fewer than the 894 girls named Esmeralda in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #133, reached in 1998. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,477. For comparison, it was #370 in 2015 and #1,126 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Esmeralda in 109 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1911 with 5 babies. In all, 51,751 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 15,502 babies named Esmeralda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,311 US girls were named Esmeralda; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 907. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,953 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Esmeralda ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #113 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Emerald (10,056 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Esmerelda, Ezmeralda and Ezmerelda are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Latvian, Portuguese and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Esmerelda (776), Ezmeralda (509), Ezmerelda (103), Emeraude (51), Ismeralda (15), Esmaralda (11), Emeralda (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Esmeralda in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 16 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 20 | #113 | #172 |
| California | 198 | #155 | #153 |
| Arizona | 37 | #178 | #191 |
| Nebraska | 9 | #253 | — |
| Illinois | 41 | #260 | #246 |
| Texas | 129 | #268 | #215 |
| Colorado | 22 | #282 | #326 |
| Washington | 24 | #305 | #307 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #328 | #225 |
| Kansas | 10 | #338 | #374 |
| Idaho | 6 | #370 | — |
| Wisconsin | 14 | #372 | #378 |
| Utah | 11 | #393 | #757 |
| Florida | 46 | #408 | #485 |
| Connecticut | 7 | #416 | — |
| Oregon | 8 | #445 | #328 |
| Georgia | 24 | #476 | #364 |
| New Jersey | 15 | #509 | #355 |
| North Carolina | 20 | #546 | #615 |
| Indiana | 12 | #557 | #794 |
| Tennessee | 13 | #574 | #591 |
| Virginia | 13 | #583 | #796 |
| Iowa | 5 | #599 | — |
| Minnesota | 8 | #617 | #630 |
| New York | 26 | #638 | #693 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #644 | #487 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #647 | #532 |
| Alabama | 7 | #658 | — |
| Maryland | 7 | #682 | — |
| South Carolina | 6 | #723 | #799 |
| Ohio | 13 | #723 | #1,092 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #784 | #771 |
| Michigan | 9 | #814 | #850 |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #833 | #804 |
| Missouri | 5 | #975 | #1,015 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 823 | #373 | — | — |
| 2024 | 894 | #350 | — | — |
| 2023 | 907 | #342 | — | — |
| 2022 | 854 | #371 | — | — |
| 2021 | 696 | #450 | — | — |
| 2020 | 790 | #394 | — | — |
| 2019 | 825 | #379 | — | — |
| 2018 | 832 | #377 | — | — |
| 2017 | 821 | #378 | — | — |
| 2016 | 869 | #377 | — | — |
| 2015 | 883 | #370 | — | — |
| 2014 | 867 | #377 | — | — |
| 2013 | 786 | #393 | — | — |
| 2012 | 882 | #360 | — | — |
| 2011 | 946 | #334 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,168 | #283 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,113 | #299 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,340 | #256 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,745 | #191 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,538 | #223 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,618 | #214 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,613 | #212 | 5 | #11,910 |
| 2003 | 1,652 | #202 | 8 | #8,076 |
| 2002 | 1,598 | #205 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,621 | #201 | 5 | #11,103 |
| 2000 | 1,641 | #195 | 5 | #10,928 |
| 1999 | 1,765 | #177 | 6 | #9,064 |
| 1998 | 2,477 | #133 | 7 | #7,840 |
| 1997 | 1,393 | #214 | 7 | #7,538 |
| 1996 | 768 | #360 | — | — |
| 1995 | 657 | #400 | 6 | #8,124 |
| 1994 | 688 | #375 | 7 | #7,207 |
| 1993 | 698 | #365 | 6 | #7,954 |
| 1992 | 630 | #403 | 14 | #4,179 |
| 1991 | 611 | #416 | 6 | #7,564 |
| 1990 | 601 | #423 | 9 | #5,516 |
| 1989 | 555 | #439 | 7 | #6,436 |
| 1988 | 475 | #480 | 6 | #6,678 |
| 1987 | 485 | #456 | 5 | #7,309 |
| 1986 | 465 | #464 | 5 | #7,060 |
| 1985 | 418 | #488 | 6 | #6,023 |
| 1984 | 392 | #503 | 7 | #5,141 |
| 1983 | 440 | #462 | — | — |
| 1982 | 518 | #424 | 13 | #3,351 |
| 1981 | 515 | #422 | 6 | #5,725 |
| 1980 | 520 | #420 | 7 | #5,110 |
| 1979 | 510 | #416 | — | — |
| 1978 | 477 | #425 | 8 | #4,274 |
| 1977 | 471 | #432 | 7 | #4,755 |
| 1976 | 480 | #420 | — | — |
| 1975 | 440 | #448 | 6 | #5,003 |
| 1974 | 389 | #461 | — | — |
| 1973 | 450 | #432 | 6 | #4,691 |
| 1972 | 261 | #609 | — | — |
| 1971 | 199 | #745 | — | — |
| 1970 | 221 | #704 | — | — |
| 1969 | 153 | #839 | — | — |
| 1968 | 159 | #795 | — | — |
| 1967 | 148 | #821 | — | — |
| 1966 | 176 | #742 | — | — |
| 1965 | 157 | #788 | — | — |
| 1964 | 174 | #784 | — | — |
| 1963 | 146 | #865 | — | — |
| 1962 | 163 | #821 | — | — |
| 1961 | 171 | #799 | — | — |
| 1960 | 168 | #791 | — | — |
| 1959 | 138 | #885 | — | — |
| 1958 | 131 | #894 | — | — |
| 1957 | 122 | #934 | — | — |
| 1956 | 98 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 1955 | 111 | #933 | — | — |
| 1954 | 121 | #867 | — | — |
| 1953 | 98 | #957 | — | — |
| 1952 | 112 | #871 | — | — |
| 1951 | 94 | #958 | — | — |
| 1950 | 67 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 1949 | 66 | #1,114 | — | — |
| 1948 | 54 | #1,243 | — | — |
| 1947 | 36 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 1946 | 38 | #1,424 | — | — |
| 1945 | 35 | #1,362 | — | — |
| 1944 | 27 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 1943 | 25 | #1,716 | — | — |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,720 | — | — |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,763 | — | — |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,801 | — | — |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,234 | — | — |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,372 | — | — |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,026 | — | — |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,198 | — | — |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,244 | — | — |
| 1934 | 16 | #2,023 | — | — |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,422 | — | — |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,376 | — | — |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,610 | — | — |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,044 | — | — |
| 1929 | 16 | #2,121 | — | — |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,835 | — | — |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,377 | — | — |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,505 | — | — |
| 1925 | 20 | #1,960 | — | — |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,774 | — | — |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,568 | — | — |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,655 | — | — |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,114 | — | — |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,972 | — | — |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,332 | — | — |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,834 | — | — |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,594 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).