Esmeralda
#373 for girls in 2025, 823 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #11,356
Given to girls 99.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 2,477 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 51,571since 1911
Esmeralda over time
Rank among girls' names. Esmeralda has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #373 | 823 | — | |
| 2024 | #350 | 894 | — | |
| 2023 | #342 | 907 | — | |
| 2022 | #371 | 854 | — | |
| 2021 | #450 | 696 | — | |
| 2020 | #394 | 790 | — | |
| 2019 | #379 | 825 | — | |
| 2018 | #377 | 832 | — | |
| 2017 | #378 | 821 | — | |
| 2016 | #377 | 869 | — | |
| 2015 | #370 | 883 | — | |
| 2014 | #377 | 867 | — | |
| 2013 | #393 | 786 | — | |
| 2012 | #360 | 882 | — | |
| 2011 | #333 | 946 | — | |
| 2010 | #283 | 1,168 | — | |
| 2009 | #299 | 1,113 | — | |
| 2008 | #256 | 1,340 | — | |
| 2007 | #191 | 1,745 | — | |
| 2006 | #223 | 1,538 | — | |
| 2005 | #214 | 1,618 | — | |
| 2004 | #212 | 1,613 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #202 | 1,652 | #7,831 | 8 |
| 2002 | #205 | 1,598 | — | |
| 2001 | #201 | 1,621 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #195 | 1,641 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #177 | 1,765 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #133 | 2,477 | #7,560 | 7 |
| 1997 | #214 | 1,393 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #360 | 768 | — | |
| 1995 | #400 | 657 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #375 | 688 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #365 | 698 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #403 | 630 | #4,114 | 14 |
| 1991 | #416 | 611 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #422 | 601 | #5,382 | 9 |
| 1989 | #438 | 555 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #479 | 475 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #456 | 485 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #463 | 465 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #488 | 418 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #503 | 392 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #462 | 440 | — | |
| 1982 | #424 | 518 | #3,282 | 13 |
| 1981 | #422 | 515 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #420 | 520 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #416 | 510 | — | |
| 1978 | #425 | 477 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #431 | 471 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #419 | 480 | — | |
| 1975 | #448 | 440 | #4,797 | 6 |
| 1974 | #461 | 389 | — | |
| 1973 | #432 | 450 | #4,505 | 6 |
| 1972 | #609 | 261 | — | |
| 1971 | #743 | 199 | — | |
| 1970 | #704 | 221 | — | |
| 1969 | #836 | 153 | — | |
| 1968 | #794 | 159 | — | |
| 1967 | #820 | 148 | — | |
| 1966 | #742 | 176 | — | |
| 1965 | #787 | 157 | — | |
| 1964 | #784 | 174 | — | |
| 1963 | #865 | 146 | — | |
| 1962 | #820 | 163 | — | |
| 1961 | #799 | 171 | — | |
| 1960 | #789 | 168 | — | |
| 1959 | #883 | 138 | — | |
| 1958 | #892 | 131 | — | |
| 1957 | #933 | 122 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,034 | 98 | — | |
| 1955 | #932 | 111 | — | |
| 1954 | #865 | 121 | — | |
| 1953 | #954 | 98 | — | |
| 1952 | #870 | 112 | — | |
| 1951 | #957 | 94 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,123 | 67 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,109 | 66 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,238 | 54 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,576 | 36 | — | |
| 1946 | #1,419 | 38 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,356 | 35 | — | |
| 1944 | #1,578 | 27 | — | |
| 1943 | #1,703 | 25 | — | |
| 1942 | #1,706 | 24 | — | |
| 1941 | #1,750 | 21 | — | |
| 1940 | #2,737 | 10 | — | |
| 1939 | #2,206 | 14 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,340 | 13 | — | |
| 1937 | #1,999 | 16 | — | |
| 1936 | #3,103 | 8 | — | |
| 1935 | #3,156 | 8 | — | |
| 1934 | #2,003 | 16 | — | |
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,274 | 8 | — | |
| 1931 | #3,497 | 7 | — | |
| 1930 | #2,023 | 17 | — | |
| 1929 | #2,098 | 16 | — | |
| 1928 | #2,768 | 11 | — | |
| 1927 | #3,284 | 9 | — | |
| 1926 | #2,474 | 14 | — | |
| 1925 | #1,946 | 20 | — | |
| 1924 | #3,665 | 8 | — | |
| 1923 | #4,376 | 6 | — | |
| 1922 | — | — | ||
| 1921 | #4,464 | 6 | — | |
| 1920 | #3,957 | 7 | — | |
| 1919 | #3,817 | 7 | — | |
| 1918 | #3,244 | 9 | — | |
| 1917 | #3,713 | 7 | — | |
| 1916 | — | — | ||
| 1915 | — | — | ||
| 1914 | — | — | ||
| 1913 | — | — | ||
| 1912 | — | — | ||
| 1911 | #2,463 | 5 | — | |
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| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Esmeralda! It came in at #2,463, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1911–1916, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Esmeralda
- 23 spots since 2024 (#350 → #373)
- 21 spots since 2020 (#394 → #373)
- 3 spots since 2015 (#370 → #373)
- Biggest jump: 177 spots in 1973 (#609 → #432)
- Biggest drop: 102 spots in 1956 (#932 → #1,034)
- Debuted 1911
- Peaked 1998 at #133 (2,477 births)
- Births halved by 2009, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 74 yrs · run 1957–2025
- Highest: 1 in 713 girls born in 1998 were named Esmeralda (0.14%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,953 girls born in 2025 (0.05%)
- 30.0% of all girls named Esmeralda (15,479) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 28 | #2,463 (1911) | #3,309 |
| 1920s | 97 | #1,946 (1925) | #3,226 |
| 1930s | 112 | #1,999 (1937) | #2,782 |
| 1940s | 336 | #1,109 (1949) | #1,617 |
| 1950s | 1,092 | #865 (1954) | #944 |
| 1960s | 1,615 | #742 (1966) | #804 |
| 1970s | 3,898 | #416 (1979) | #509 |
| 1980s | 4,783 | #420 (1980) | #456 |
| 1990s | 10,288 | #133 (1998) | #327 |
| 2000s | 15,479 | #191 (2007) | #220 |
| 2010s | 8,879 | #283 (2010) | #363 |
| 2020s | 4,964 | #342 (2023) | #380 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Esmeralda in 1973
Top girls' names in 1973
Top boys' names in 1973
More about 1973
girls
1,458,209 girls got a published name in 1973; 1 in 3,240 of them was named Esmeralda, which outranked 95.6% of the 9,810 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,558,576 boys got a published name in 1973; 1 in 259,763 of them was named Esmeralda, which outranked 23.3% of the 5,877 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,054Zakary7
- #4,054Zalmen7
- #4,054Zubin7
- #4,505Esmeralda6
- #4,505Abdu6
- #4,505Abelino6
- #4,505Able6
- #5,101Abdalla5
- #5,101Abiel5
- #5,101Abrahm5
Tied with 595 names at #4,505; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 669Jabbar#917 → #1,586
- ↓ 361Wes#993 → #1,354
- ↓ 326Paris#797 → #1,123
- ↓ 284Christophe#984 → #1,268
- ↓ 272Bennett#851 → #1,123
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.