Esperanza
Meaning
hope
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Esperanza peaked in the 2000s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure.
See popularity in Brazil
Popularity in Brazil
122 people · the #35,848 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 1,000,000 · median age 52
Among people named Esperanza living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1960s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
The Esperanza deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Esperanza truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Esperanza fits with your family’s names and surname.
Where Esperanza travels
Mexican American · a virtue name carried proudly through Mexican-American families
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