The baby name Ezmeralda is a Female name , 4 syllables long and is pronounced /ˌɛz.məˈræl.də/ (EZ-mə-RAL-də); Spanish: /es.meˈɾal.da/ (es-me-RAL-da).
The baby name Ezmeralda is a Female name , 4 syllables long and is pronounced /ˌɛz.məˈræl.də/ (EZ-mə-RAL-də); Spanish: /es.meˈɾal.da/ (es-me-RAL-da).
Ezmeralda is Greek, Spanish in Origin.
Ezmeralda is a modern respelling of Esmeralda, the Spanish and Portuguese given name taken from the word for the emerald gemstone. The term traces back through Romance from Latin smaragdus, itself from Greek smaragdos, 'emerald.' As a name it evokes the stone’s associations with vivid green, renewal, love, and good fortune.
Used in Iberia since the Middle Ages, Esmeralda gained broader recognition after Victor Hugo’s 1831 Notre-Dame de Paris, whose heroine La Esmeralda popularized it across Europe; late-20th-century visibility came via the 1996 Disney adaptation and a 1997 Mexican telenovela, boosting use in the Americas. The Z-form Ezmeralda has emerged especially in the United States and Latin America as a distinctive yet familiar variant. Related forms and cognates include Esmeralda (standard), Emerald (English), Émeraude (French), Esmiralda (Balkan/Albanian), and the rare masculine Esmeraldo (Portuguese). Nicknames range from Esme/Esmé and Emmy to Meralda.
Based on birth registration data from national statistics agencies.
| Country | Gender | Year | Rank | Born | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sweden | Girls | 2021 | #181 | 3 | 1,666 |
| AL | Girls | 0 | #226 | 2 | 4,141 |
| JP | Girls | 0 | #251 | 1 | 6,592 |
| DK | Girls | 0 | #329 | 1 | 7,429 |
| PE | 0 | #329 | 1 | 6,350 | |
| OM | Girls | 0 | #424 | 1 | 15,987 |
| MX | 0 | #444 | 2 | 8,339 | |
| ZA | 0 | #473 | 2 | 14,421 | |
| PA | Girls | 0 | #518 | 1 | 9,861 |
| CR | Girls | 0 | #573 | 1 | 11,342 |
| AE | Girls | 0 | #597 | 1 | 20,968 |
| IL | Girls | 0 | #645 | 1 | 11,648 |
| LB | 0 | #689 | 2 | 13,263 | |
| SY | 0 | #765 | 3 | 11,684 | |
| TN | 0 | #862 | 4 | 13,765 | |
| United States | Girls | 2024 | #899 | 18 | 8,487 |
| CL | Girls | 0 | #915 | 1 | 14,098 |
| EG | Girls | 0 | #1,005 | 5 | 14,742 |
| PE | Girls | 0 | #1,006 | 5 | 14,861 |
| MX | Boys | 0 | #1,033 | 1 | 16,355 |
| MY | Girls | 0 | #1,072 | 1 | 24,821 |
| MX | Girls | 0 | #1,121 | 63 | 17,781 |
| CO | Girls | 0 | #1,150 | 3 | 16,140 |
| MA | 0 | #1,199 | 1 | 20,986 | |
| DZ | 0 | #1,231 | 4 | 20,130 | |
| ZA | Girls | 0 | #1,236 | 1 | 25,928 |
| TR | 0 | #1,254 | 1 | 19,440 |
Ezmeralda is popular in 23 countries — most recent births per country:
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