Name: Hope
Gender: Female
Usage: Hope is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Hope are in general originating from Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Hope across the world, see Elpida.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Hope is: Hope, Trust.
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Numerology of the first name Hope: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 8. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: ambitious, successful, realistic, powerful, authoritative, courageous, leading.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Leader, Visionary
Ruling planet: Saturn
Colors: Black, Purple
Gemstones: Ruby, Amethyst
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The name Hope is ranked on the 975th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 552500 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.008% of the population. The name Hope has four characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Hope for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
The name day of Hope is 12 November.
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History and Origin
Hope is a unisex name derived from the Middle English hope, ultimately from the Old English word hopian referring to a positive expectation or to the theological virtue of hope. It was used as a virtue name by the Puritans. Puritans also used Hope as an element in phrase names, such as Hope-for, Hopeful, and Hope-still.
The name is also the usual English translation of the Greek name of Saint Hope, an early Christian child martyr who was tortured to death along with her sisters Faith and Charity. She is known as Elpis in Greek and Spes in Church Latin and her name is translated differently in other languages.
Faith, Hope and Charity, the three theological virtues, are names traditionally given to Multiple birth girls, just as Faith and Hope remain common names for twin girls. There were 40 sets of twins named Faith and Hope born in the United States in 2009, the second most common name combination for twin girls. One example were the American triplets Faith, Hope and Charity Cardwell, who were born in 1899 in Texas and were recognized in 1994 by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's longest lived triplets.
Hope has been among the top 1,000 names given to girls born in the United States since 1880 and has been among the top 500 since 1909. It was ranked as the 231st most popular name for girls born in 2011 in the United States, down from its peak ranking of No. 144 in 1999.
English: from the vocabulary word hope (Old English hopa), denoting the quality, in particular the Christian quality of expectation in the resurrection and in eternal life. The name was created by the Puritans and has been one of their most successful coinages. The given name is still fairly common, and has its existence independently of the vocabulary word. It has probably been reinforced by transferred use of the surname Hope, which is derived from the dialect term hope meaning ‘enclosed valley’ (Old English hop).
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