Hope

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Hope boys named Hope

By the numbers

Total US births

97,793

Estimated living today

85,000

Median age today

27

Peak year

2000

Best rank

146th

Rank in 2025

352nd

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

97,225 / 568

How old the living Hopes are

born that year still alive today

Of the 97,793 babies given the name since 1880, about 85,000 are alive — 87 in every hundred. Roughly 24,000 of them are children and 6,900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin English

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Hopes

• Hope Solo (born 1981)American soccer player
• Hope Davis (born 1964)American actress
• Hope Lange (1933–2003)American actress
• William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918)British writer
• Hope Hicks (born 1988)American public relations executive and political advisor
• Hope Emerson (1897–1960)American actress
• Hope Sandoval (born 1966)American singer
• Hope Powell (born 1966)English association football player and manager

People named Hope with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Hope is most common

• TX7,473
• CA7,275
• NY6,315
• PA5,468
• OH4,776
• FL3,872
• IL3,860
• MI3,725
• NC2,752
• IN2,566

Relative to how many babies each state records, Hope is most concentrated in Rhode Island (2.3×), Maine (1.6×), Colorado (1.3×), Maryland (1.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2000

The most popular girls’ names the year Hope peaked:

• Emily
• Hannah
• Madison
• Ashley
• Sarah
• Alexis

All the names of 2000

Hope elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Hope: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Hope: rank by region

In 2025, Hope was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Hope appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (90th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Hope by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Hope among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.