Esmeralda is a Spanish and Portuguese name, that is derived from ’emerald’, the name of the green-colored gemstone. The word goes back to the Greek ‘smáragdos’ for ‘green gem’.
Esmeralda is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Esmeralda isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Esmeralda ranks 355. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 5 were named Esmeralda. In the entire USA, approximately 46,796 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Esmeralda. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Esmeralda is a Spanish and Portuguese name, that is derived from ’emerald’, the name of the green-colored gemstone. The word goes back to the Greek ‘smáragdos’ for ‘green gem’.
Esmeralda has been used... in the English-speaking world since Victor Hugo published his novel 'The Hunchback of Notre-Dame' (1831) featuring a character bearing that name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 3.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With nine letters, the name Esmeralda is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.9%, E as the first letter in girls' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the girls' names that start with an E, Elizabeth is the most common.
If your name is Esmeralda and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Esmeralda, you can simply say:
Elephant
Sun
Mouse
Elephant
Rocket
Apple
Lion
Dinosaur
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Esmeralda
Esmeralda
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
S
M
E
R
A
L
D
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
E
S
M
E
R
A
L
D
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Esmeralda sounds like this:
