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Esmé

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Gender
  
male or female

Related names
  
Edmé, Esméralda

Pronunciation
  
/ˈɛmeɪ/, /ˈɛzmeɪ/ or /ˈɛzmiː/

Word/name
  
French esmé (feminine esmée), "esteemed", past participle of esmer, "to esteem"

Meaning
  
1. French: "beloved", "esteemed" 2. Short for Esméralda

Esmé or Esmée is a French given name, the participle of French esmer "to esteem" (whence also English aim). Esmé came to be used in Scotland in the 16th century as the name of Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox (1542–1583) and is now among the most popular baby names for girls in the UK.

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Esme is also used as a short form for the feminine name Esmeralda.

Esme

Feminine
  • Esmé Bianco (born 1982), British model and performer
  • Esme Church (1893–1972), British actress and theatre director
  • Esme Irwin (1931–2001), British cricket player
  • Esmé Kamphuis (born 1983), Dutch retired bobsledder
  • Esme Langley (1919–1991), British writer
  • Esme Mackinnon (born 1913), British skier
  • Esme Melville (1918–2006), Australian actress
  • Esme Steyn (born 1953), South African lawn bowler
  • Esmè Stuart, pen name of Amélie Claire Leroy (1851–1934), English writer
  • Esme Tombleson (1917–2010), New Zealand politician
  • Esmé Wiegman (born 1975), Dutch politician
  • Esmé Wynne-Tyson (1898–1972), English actress and writer
    • Masculine
  • Esmé Collings (1859-1936), English photographer, miniaturist and early film pioneer
  • Esme Haywood (1900-1985), English cricketer
  • Esme Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Penrith (1863–1939)
  • Esme Mends (born 1986), Ghanaian football player
  • Esme Percy (1887–1957), British actor
  • Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox (1542–1583)
  • Esmé Stuart, 2nd Duke of Lennox
  • Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox (1579–1624)
  • Esmé Stewart, 2nd Duke of Richmond (1649–1660)
  • Esmé Cecil Wingfield-Stratford (1882–1971), English historian and writer

    • Esmée

  • Esmée Denters (born 1988), Dutch singer
  • Esmée Fairbairn, eponymous of Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

    • Fictional characters

  • Esme, John Shelby's Gypsy wife in the TV series Peaky Blinders
  • Esme, in William Gaddis' 1955 novel The Recognitions
  • Esmé, in J. D. Salinger's short story "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor"
  • Esmé Amarinth, in the novel The Green Carnation
  • Esme Cuckoo, a mutant in the Marvel Universe
  • Esme Cullen, a vampire in the Twilight series
  • Esme Murray, in the sitcom Hamish Macbeth
  • Esmé Squalor, a villainess in Lemony Snicket's book series A Series of Unfortunate Events
  • Esme Vanderheusen, in the soap opera Passions
  • Esme Weatherwax, a witch in the Discworld series
  • Esme Watson, in the Australian TV series A Country Practice

    • References

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