Hope
Meaning
hope
Famously borne by goalkeeper Hope Solo.
The story
Hope is the virtue said plainly, the middle sister of the old triplet Faith, Hope and Charity, and the ancestor of the whole wish-name register that Haven, Journee and Saylor have joined in these batches. Its American record is long and warm rather than spiky: four figures every decade since the 1910s, rising through 8,800 in the 1960s and 11,100 in the 1970s, cresting at 18,700 in the 2000s, then settling to 13,800 and 6,900 so far this decade. In our records it goes to girls about 97,100 to 560. The oldest wish-names never needed respelling or gendering suffixes; Hope simply is what it says, four letters that work as a first name, a middle name and a complete sentence. Four centuries of American daughters have carried it, and the register it founded is more crowded now than ever.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Hope peaked in the 1990s and the 2000s in nearly equal measure.
See popularity in Brazil
Popularity in Brazil
151 people · the #30,950 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 1,000,000 · median age 1
The census also counted 121 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
When you meet Hope
Most people given the name Hope in the United States were born between 1970 and 2019. The Hope you meet today is most often in her 20s or 30s.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Hope deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Hope 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 Hope fits with your family’s names and surname.
Where Hope travels
Filipino American · hope, expectation (one of the Filipino virtue-name trio with Faith and Charity)
Dual-language · hope, expectation; a direct translation of the Filipino word Pag-asa ("hope"), part of the same virtue-name tradition that gave the Philippines names like Faith and Charity
Keep exploring
Dual-language baby names · Filipino American baby names · Names of soccer legends · Short names
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