girls:
95.3k births since 1880
#384 (93rd percentile)
boys:
556 births since 1880
#4030 (12th percentile)
overall:
95.9k births since 1880
#705 (91st percentile)
The name Hope is the #705 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 95,870 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 90.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #384 (93.3% percentile) for all time with 95,314 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,030 (12.1% percentile) for all time with 556 births since 1880.
Hope has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Hope has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Hope reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 84.3% percentile (ranked #142) with 1,163 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 1,163 births per million (ranked 84.0% percentile). Despite a low point in 2018, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Hope ranks #286 for girls (69.9% percentile) with 578 births per million, which is 49.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Hope reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 2.4% percentile (ranked #522) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 51 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Hope ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 7.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hope".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Hope. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Hope is pronounced as hohp, which has 1 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like HH OW1 P) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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