Hope
Fewer than forty Poles carry it, almost all of them women, so meeting one is memorable. The name means just what the English word says: hope, nadzieja.
Hope Pronunciation
Hope is pronounced KHO-pe (/ˈxɔpɛ/).
What Hope means
Where Hope comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The meaning sits in plain view: hope. Its Slavic word is nadzieja, and the Slavic habit of making names from bright words runs older than the English one. Nadezhda, the eastern Slavic form of that same idea, carried the sense of hope for centuries.
In England the name Hope grew among the Puritans. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries they drew given names straight from virtues. Faith and Hope stood among them. A child so named wore a word the whole parish could read.
In a Polish class register, Hope reads as a borrowing, foreign beside Zofia or Jan. The meaning survives the crossing. It still says nadzieja.
How many people are named Hope
1 in 683146 women in Poland is named Hope. 36 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6591 among female names.
Hope's popularity over time
2 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1597 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2023.
Hope as a middle name
Hope is a first name for 36 women in Poland and a middle name for another 128, a 22/78 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 580th, between Kleopatra (129) and Renee (128).
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#578 Aurela129
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#579 Kleopatra129
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#580 Hope128
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#581 Renee128
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#582 Amy126