Hope

What Hope means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Hope yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #225 in 2015 to #352 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Hope?

US: Falling: down from #225 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #144 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2000, when 2,321 girls got the name (#146 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 1,852 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 918 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 596 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in HI (2.33 per 1,000 girls), DE (2.22 per 1,000 girls), RI (2.04 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Hope is #352 in the US and #180 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.4% of US babies named Hope were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

If you like Hope

Girls

• Madison#40Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1970, with 5 babies
• Mackenzie#228“son, descendant + of Coinneach”^*
• Clare#924“bright, shining, clear”^*
• Faith#254Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #90 in 2015, #254 in 2025
• Cassidy#541“descendant of Caiside”^*
• Skyler#670Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #283 in 2015, #670 in 2025

For a brother

• Hunter#130From the word “hunter”^*
• Cole#182“coal, coal-black”^*
• Grant#228“big, large”^*
• Chandler#753Editor’s note Used for both: 54% of US babies named Chandler in 2025 were boys
• Cameron#76“crooked, bent + nose”^*
• Davis#668Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #668 vs #5,137 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under English, From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Hope’s. Rank is US 2025.