Girl

Hope

Hope is a girl's name, a solidly familiar choice, that is currently on the rise, with its biggest decade yet in the 2000s.

Middle EnglishMiddle English virtue name

EtymologyMeaning "hope, expectation"

Births by decade

1900s

439

1910s

1,998

1920s

3,486

1930s

2,140

1940s

3,059

1950s

5,012

1960s

8,768

1970s

11,075

1980s

7,642

1990s

14,323

2000s

18,713

2010s

11,018

Peaked in the 2000s · 87,673 total U.S. births since 1900