Hope

Where Hope comes from

The dictionaries list Hope as a given name — a female given name from English from the virtue, like Faith and Charity first used by Puritans — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • English
  • 1 syllable
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1964
    Hope Davis born
    American actress
  3. 1981
    Hope Solo born
    American soccer player
  4. 1999
    Peak, #143
    2,265 babies named Hope — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2023
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #302.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English from the virtue, like Faith and Charity first used by Puritans.
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Hope Solo · American soccer player, born 1981
  • Hope Davis · American actress, born 1964
  • Hope Lange · American actress, 1933–2003
  • Hope Hicks · American public relations executive and political advisor, born 1988
  • Hope Emerson · American actress, 1897–1960

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.