Esmeralda (first name)

The name Esmeralda comes from Spanish and means emerald or general gemstone . A well-known fictional name bearer is the dancer (La) Esmeralda, who grew up with Sinti and Roma , from the historical novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo . In the novel Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann the 'Haetera esmeralda' plays an important role.

Well-known namesake

• Esmeralda Arboleda (* 1921), Colombian politician, elected the first woman to the Colombian Senate in 1958.
• Caro Emerald , actually Caroline Esmeralda van der Leeuw (* 1981), Dutch singer
• Esmeralda de Jesus Garcia (* 1959), Brazilian athlete and Olympian in the long jump.
• Esmeralda Grao (* 1968), Spanish composer
• Esmeralda Cárdenas Sánchez (* 1975), member of the Congress of the Union of Mexico
• Esmeralda Santiago (* 1948), writer from Puerto Rico