Esmerelda
10
Babies in 2024
+100%
10-year change
2021
Peak · 27
+43%
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 Esmerelda
Esmerelda is a rising UK girl's name. Registrations in 2024 (10) are up 100% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Esmerelda reached its peak in 2021, when 27 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,224 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 10 represents 37% of the peak.
Across 16 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 140 girls have been officially registered with the name Esmerelda in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 114 girls were registered with the name, starting from 5 in 2014 and ending at 10 in 2024.