Hope

A girls’ name of Old English origin, meaning expectation; desire for good things.

Babies a year
276
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Uncommon
among names in use
US popularity
#352
down from #317
UK popularity
#180
276 babies · down from #168

How Hope has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2025. Lower is more popular.
#173#278#382201520202025#352

View as table
YearUS rank
2015#227
2016#240
2017#250
2018#252
2019#228
2020#203
2021#228
2022#260
2023#302
2024#317
2025#352

Hope by the numbers

In 2025, 276 babies in England and Wales were named Hope. In the US, 1,256 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.

Its American peak was 2,321 babies in 2000, making it a 2000s name.

At its height, in 2000, about 1 in 860 American girls born that year was called Hope.

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Hope as a share of American girls born, 1880 to 2008, at five year intervals. Source: US Social Security Administration.

Other names that mean hope

Like Hope, each of these has hope in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.

  • Nadiahope; from nadezhda777 in the US (2017)
  • Amalhope or aspiration278 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Esperanzahope270 in the US (2017)
  • Ashahope, desire, wish212 in the US (2017)
  • Nadinehope; from the Russian Nadezhda177 in the US (2017)
  • Nadyahope; a form of Nadezhda49 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Hope

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