Means "emerald" in Spanish. Victor Hugo used this name in his novel 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' (1831), in which Esmeralda is the Gypsy girl who is loved by Quasimodo. It has occasionally been used in the English-speaking world since that time. Esmeralda is a Spanish form of Emerald. Emerald originates in Greek language and is taken from the word for a green gemstone, also describing a shade of green color. Emerald is a mineral beryl, the birthstone of the month of May and also the gemstone of the astrological signs of Taurus, Gemini and Cancer.
