# Hope (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/hope/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈhoʊp/, 1 syllable |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 97,793 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 568 / 97,225 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 9,728, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,396 | 227 |
| 2012 | 1,456 | 218 |
| 2013 | 1,397 | 230 |
| 2014 | 1,451 | 229 |
| 2015 | 1,453 | 225 |
| 2016 | 1,353 | 238 |
| 2017 | 1,271 | 250 |
| 2018 | 1,296 | 252 |
| 2019 | 1,374 | 227 |
| 2020 | 1,439 | 203 |
| 2021 | 1,329 | 226 |
| 2022 | 1,214 | 258 |
| 2023 | 1,026 | 302 |
| 2024 | 973 | 317 |
| 2025 | 868 | 352 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 16 | 5,095 |
| 2005 | 6 | 10,589 |
| 2008 | 5 | 13,266 |
| 2009 | 5 | 13,183 |
| 2015 | 5 | 12,798 |
| 2016 | 7 | 10,054 |
| 2017 | 6 | 11,276 |
| 2018 | 9 | 8,416 |
| 2019 | 12 | 6,932 |
| 2020 | 9 | 8,310 |
| 2021 | 5 | 12,834 |
| 2022 | 7 | 10,193 |
| 2023 | 7 | 10,125 |
| 2024 | 7 | 10,283 |
| 2025 | 5 | 12,722 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 313 | 167 |
| 2012 | 416 | 138 |
| 2013 | 396 | 134 |
| 2014 | 362 | 151 |
| 2015 | 381 | 144 |
| 2016 | 348 | 161 |
| 2017 | 346 | 160 |
| 2018 | 379 | 139 |
| 2019 | 407 | 127 |
| 2020 | 463 | 110 |
| 2021 | 403 | 125 |
| 2022 | 387 | 129 |
| 2023 | 319 | 160 |
| 2024 | 299 | 168 |
| 2025 | 276 | 180 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 3 | 3,225 |
| 2004 | 4 | 3,009 |
| 2006 | 3 | 4,052 |
| 2008 | 9 | 2,097 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |
| 2017 | 4 | 3,996 |
| 2020 | 4 | 3,848 |
| 2023 | 5 | 3,523 |

## In other languages

- Catalan: Esperança
- French: Espérance, Nadège
- Greek: Ελπίδα
- Hungarian: Reményke
- Italian: Speranza
- Polish: Nadzieja, Nadia
- Portuguese: Esperança
- Russian: Наде́жда, На́дя
- Spanish: Esperanza
- Ukrainian: Наді́я

## People named Hope

- Hope Solo, American soccer player
- Hope Davis, American actress
- Hope Lange, American actress (1933-2003)
- William Hope Hodgson, British writer (1877–1918)
- Hope Hicks, American public relations executive and political advisor (born 1988)
- Hope Emerson, American actress (1897–1960)
- Hope Sandoval, American singer
- Hope Powell, English association football player and manager (born 1966)
- Hope Mirrlees, British poet, novelist, and translator (1887–1978)
- Hope Cooke, American author, historian and former Queen of Sikkim
- Hope Hampton, American actress (1897-1982)
- Hope Jahren, American geologist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.