What names mean hope?
Hope and Esperanza are names connected with hope. Hope uses the English word, while Spanish Esperanza comes through Latin Sperantia, a name related to hoping.
Explore the names below and follow any name to its full history.
Toivo Finnish · hope, wish
Armaan Persian · desire, wish, hope
Amani Arabic · wishes; from an Arabic root meaning 'to tempt, to put to the test'
Prasetyo Indonesian · vow, promise, pledge
Nadiya Ukrainian · hope
Hope English · hope
Nadine Russian · hope
Nozomi Japanese · hope
Omid Persian · hope
Asha Sanskrit · hope
Esperanza Spanish · hope
Tesfaye Amharic · my hope
Nadege French · traditionally meaning hope; a common Haitian given name
Kalkidan Amharic · promise
Promise English · from the word promise
Lyubov Slavic · love, one of the old trio of virtue names (Faith, Hope, Love); shared across Ukrainian and Russian
Vam Hmong · Hmong word traditionally meaning hope
Levi Hebrew · traditionally "joined, attached," from the hope Genesis records at his birth; the priestly tribe of Israel descends from him. Centuries of Jewish use, a denim-tinged American ring, and a 2010s surge that made it a fresh-feeling classic
Amal Arabic · hope (a unisex name that gained international visibility through human-rights lawyer Amal Clooney)
Amaris English · modern name of uncertain origin, sometimes linked to Hebrew promise
Fe Filipino · faith (Spanish). Anchor of the beloved sister trio Fe, Esperanza, and Caridad, faith, hope, and charity, a classic Filipino Catholic pattern for naming daughters. One syllable that reads instantly in Spanish, Tagalog, and English. Across Brazil it doubles as Fê, the affectionate short of Fernanda
Isaac Hebrew · "he will laugh," from Yitzchak, named for Sarah's astonished laughter at the promise of a son; a patriarch's name constant in Jewish use and beloved by Puritans, with a warm modern revival to show for it. Ike and Zac come along
Tawanda Shona (Zimbabwean) · a genuine Shona name from Zimbabwe meaning we have multiplied or we are many, expressing hope for a growing family
Nada Uncertain · two unrelated origins: Arabic nada, dew or generosity, and South Slavic nada, hope; which applies depends on culture, not one true root
Ho-seok Korean · great fortune (BTS J-Hope's birth name)
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