Esmeralda
From the Latin for "emerald", carried into Polish by way of Spanish. Fewer than 130 people in Poland have it, and it goes only to girls, so most Poles will never meet one.
Esmeralda Pronunciation
Esmeralda is pronounced es-me-RAHL-dah (/ɛsmɛˈralda/).
What Esmeralda means
Where Esmeralda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Esmeralda begins in Latin, where the word `smaragdus` named a green gemstone. Spanish reshaped it into esmeralda, the ordinary term for emerald, the stone Poland calls szmaragd. The origin is a mineral, not a virtue.
The name reached wide audiences through a book. Victor Hugo gave his dancer the name in Notre-Dame de Paris, published in 1831, and Esmeralda walked out of that novel into the rest of Europe. Readers who never mined a gem still pictured the green stone.
In Spain and Latin America the name kept its plain sense. A girl called Esmeralda is, on the page of any dictionary, an emerald.
On a Polish class register it looks foreign. It is a rare entry. Set beside Zuzanna and Julia, the name points back to the Latin `smaragdus` that means emerald.
When Esmeralda celebrates name day
Esmeralda appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 8 August.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Esmeralda
1 in 178919 women in Poland is named Esmeralda. 126 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2974 among female names.
Esmeralda's popularity over time
2 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1557 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2022.
Where Esmeralda is most popular
Esmeralda is most popular in Lower Silesian, 1275% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Lower Silesian2 girls born+1275%
Esmeralda as a middle name
Esmeralda is a first name for 126 women in Poland and a middle name for another 71, a 64/36 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 795th, between Blanca (71) and Florencia (71).
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#793 Juliette72
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#794 Blanca71
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#795 Esmeralda71
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#796 Florencia71
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#797 Frieda71