Esmeralda
26
Babies in 2024
+100%
10-year change
2022
Peak · 38
-30%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Esmeralda
Esmeralda is a rising UK girl's name. Registrations in 2024 (26) are up 100% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Esmeralda reached its peak in 2022, when 38 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #910 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 26 represents 68% of the peak.
Across 26 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 406 girls have been officially registered with the name Esmeralda in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 301 girls were registered with the name, starting from 13 in 2014 and ending at 26 in 2024.