Girl
Hope
One of the most enduring Puritan virtue names, still in steady use centuries after its 17th-century New England heyday. It has been climbing steadily, peaking most recently in the 2000s. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry.
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