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How popular is the name Hope?
Births per year, rank history and how many Hopes are alive today.
Hope (female) sits just outside the top 100 girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 180th in 2025 with 276 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2020, when 463 babies were given the name, the 110th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2012, with 416 babies given the name that year. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 9,600 babies have been named Hope in England and Wales since 1996.
The Hope you are most likely to meet is around 6 years old. Half of all Hopes born in England and Wales are between 8 and 26, and there are at least 11,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 3.4% chance that at least one of them will be called Hope.
How many babies are named Hope each year?
Where does Hope rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Hope most popular?
Hope peaked in 2020, when 463 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Hope?
At least 11,000 people named Hope born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Hope?
Most living Hopes are between 8 and 26; the most common age is about 6.
Is Hope becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.