How rare is the name Hope?

75,724 people in the United States have the first name Hope, about 1 in 3,989. It ranks #688 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

HOPE

#688

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
75,724
About
1 in 3,989
This common or more
64.2%
Who bears it

Of the 75,724 people named Hope, 70.6% reported their origin as White, 11.8% as Black and 9.3% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.5%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Hope peaked in 2000, when 2,326 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
2000
Births that year
2,326
In 2025*
873 ▼62%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 97,793 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Hope by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #387. The largest share of babies named Hope, 29.6%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1880s#1,078134
1890s#862293
1900s#817439
1910s#7251,998
1920s#6603,486
1930s#8152,140
1940s#7843,059
1950s#7285,013
1960s#5648,764
1970s#44811,073
1980s#6097,641
1990s#42514,329
2000s#38718,736
2010s#50813,799
2020s#5806,889
Before 19010.5%
Greatest Generation 1901–275.5%
Silent Generation 1928–454.3%
Baby boom 1946–6410.2%
Generation X 1965–8017.6%
Millennials 1981–9615.5%
Generation Z 1997–1229.6%
2013 and later16.9%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Hope is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Hope has been most common in Rhode Island (2.3×), Maine (1.7×), and Colorado (1.3×), and least common in Wyoming (0.34×).

92,385 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Hope

#686 Georgia · 76,256#687 Jaxon · 76,200#689 Sandy · 75,709#690 Shelly · 75,244

Spelled almost the same

2 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Hope, most common first.

#20,072 Hop · 518#49,963 Hopie · 122

Also a last name

As a last name, Hope ranks #2,057 of 156,621, with 17,147 people. See Hope as a last name

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