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Girl · English
Hope
Say it: HOHP
Meaning
The English word hope, from Old English hopa.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
One of the Christian virtue names taken up by Puritans, still in steady use.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 92,232 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 2000, about 1 in 782 girls
- 1,416 babies in 2020
Through the ages
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Where this comes from
- Puritan church and town records of England and New England
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.