# Hoppe (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/hoppe/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | nickname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 9,215 |
| US rank (2010) | 3,841 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 33,505 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.1% (9,115 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a Dutch and German surname, spelling variant of Hopp. * Also as a German surname, nickname from hoppen (“to hop”); see hüpfen. * As a Danish surname, from the German surname Hopf, as well as Danish hoppe (“mare, horse”). * As an English surname, spelling variant of Hopper.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Hoppe in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 95% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.7% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.3% |
| Two or more races | 1.4% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Hoppe in Germany and the United States.

## People named Hoppe

- Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Austrian school economist and libertarian anarcho-capitalist philosopher
- Matthew Hoppe, American soccer player
- René Hoppe, bobsledder

## Similar surnames

Hope, Hopp, Hove, Hopf, Huff, Hoff, Hovey, Hupp, Hipp, Hobby, Hebb, Hepp.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.