Emerald is growing on me, because it is so clunky. It reminds me of a huge, garish old ring that was obviously once considered quite glamorous but it's hard to see what the appeal was. It's that "ruld" bit at the end, it has the same energy as the dusty forgotten "beauty" of names like
Mildred,
Ethel,
Opal,
Blanche,
Edith, etc. Overall I prefer
Esmeralda but
Emerald is still pretty neat.
I wonder if pairing it with jazzier names might pep it up a bit, wake it up. I like it out front because it looks a bit "off" in the middle to me.
Emerald CleoEmerald IrisEmerald AveryEmerald InezEmerald OctaviaEmerald ZeldaEmerald SibylEmerald IreneEmerald Eliza, oh I like that
Emerald YvetteEmerald EstherEmerald AvaEmerald EsmeEmerald ColetteEmerald ColeenEmerald WandaEmerald MaxineEmerald VeraEmerald Lucinda
Hmm I don't know if I've hit upon the magic that
Emerald has the potential for here..... I know it's there!