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 | — | |
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| 1911 | #2,463 | 5 | — | |
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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.
Where Esmeralda is popular in 1981
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#128 · 1 in 669
- California#167 · 1 in 813
- Illinois#365 · 1 in 2,424
- Oregon#424 · 1 in 2,828
- Arizona#465 · 1 in 2,851
Best ever in a state: #37 in California, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | #128 | 185 | 1 in 669 |
| California | #167 | 223 | 1 in 813 |
| Illinois | #365 | 31 | 1 in 2,424 |
| Oregon | #424 | 6 | 1 in 2,828 |
| Arizona | #465 | 7 | 1 in 2,851 |
| Colorado | #498 | 6 | 1 in 3,461 |
| Florida | #654 | 10 | 1 in 5,409 |
| Washington | #687 | 5 | 1 in 5,522 |
| New York | #959 | 11 | 1 in 9,212 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 3,239 of them was named Esmeralda, which outranked 96.5% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 298,530 of them was named Esmeralda, which outranked 25.0% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,961Zacarias7
- #4,961Zebediah7
- #4,961Zeno7
- #5,468Esmeralda6
- #5,468Aaren6
- #5,468Abby6
- #5,468Abdon6
- #6,262Aakash5
- #6,262Aarion5
- #6,262Abayomi5
Tied with 793 names at #5,468; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.