Hope

At the 2020 census, 17,147 Americans bore the surname Hope — 2,057th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 17,400.

By the numbers

People: 17,147
Rank: 2,057th
How common: 1 in 17,400
Per 100,000: 5.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

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

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Hope described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 65.5%
Black, not Hispanic 24.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Hope

Bob Hope (1903–2003)American entertainer
Anthony Hope (1863–1933)English novelist
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow (1887–1952)British politician, agriculturalist and colonial administrator
Leslie Hope (born 1965)Canadian actress
John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow (1860–1908)British colonial governor
Charlotte Hope (born 1988)British actress
William Hope (born 1955)Canadian stage, film, television and voice actor
Barclay Hope (born 1958)Canadian actor

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

Surnames like Hope

Also a first name

Hope has been given to 97,793 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2000. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.