Smeralda
given name · Latin script
Meaning: aus dem Italienischen entlehnter weibl
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: ISTAT, 2024
/zmeɾalda/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Smeralda is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 90K(inferred from the name graph)
- MDMoldova1 in 1.7M
- CLChile≈1 in 3.2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 90K (inferred from the name graph)
≈660 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)aus dem Italienischen entlehnter weibl. Vom. zu italien. smeraldo »Smaragd«, vgl. auch
Cited for this meaning 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Where in the world
(measured from records)Smeralda counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); e-services.md — living population register; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Smeralda is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Splendente come uno smeraldo
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Latin, emerald
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Eustochia Smeralda Calafatob. 1434ITItalian saint
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2023 | 7 | #1,366 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2022 | 6 | #1,532 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 2 | #7,149 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 2 | #4,504 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2020 | 1 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2012 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2019 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2018 | 1 | — |
| DE Germany | DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen (2007) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | Il Grande Libro dei Nomi per Bebè (2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Smeralda?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /zmeɾalda/; in Italian /zmeralda/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Smeralda a male or female name?
- Smeralda is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Smeralda mean?
- Recorded meaning: aus dem Italienischen entlehnter weibl.
- In which country does Smeralda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 657 people named Smeralda in Italy, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Smeralda?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 2 people named Smeralda, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Smeralda?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/smeraldaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Smeralda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.