girls:
49.8k births since 1911
#577 (90th percentile)
boys:
180 births since 1973
#4406 (4th percentile)
overall:
50k births since 1911
#1075 (86th percentile)
The name Esmeralda is the #1,075 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 50,022 recorded births since 1911. This represents the 86.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #577 (89.9% percentile) for all time with 49,842 births since 1911. For boys, it ranks #4,406 (3.9% percentile) for all time with 180 births since 1973.
Esmeralda first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1911 (1911 for girls and 1973 for boys). Birth data for Esmeralda is available in 107 out of the 113 years between 1911 and 2023 (107 years for girls and 26 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Esmeralda has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Esmeralda reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 85.0% percentile (ranked #132) with 1,278 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 1,278 births per million (ranked 85.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Esmeralda ranks #322 for girls (66.1% percentile) with 517 births per million, which is 40.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Esmeralda reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #761) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Esmeralda".
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Our model has identified 10 different pronunciations for the name Esmeralda. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 28.0% confident that Esmeralda is pronounced as EH-smer-AHL-duh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is eh-smer-AHL-duh, at 28.0% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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