Hope

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Usage

English name

1) From the vocabulary word 'hope' (Old English hopa) ^[1] ^[2] ^[3]

2) Transferred use of the surname Hope, which is derived from the dialect term hope meaning 'enclosed valley' (Old English hop) ^[1]

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- Danish
Nominative:	Hope
Genitive:	Hopes

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Hope
Genitive:	Hopes

- Swedish
Nominative:	Hope
Genitive:	Hopes

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Country	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
	as main name^#	also middle name^&	as main name^#	also middle name^&	as main name^#	also middle name^&
Sweden^[4]	93	409	86	386	7	23
Denmark^[5]	61	n.a.	59	n.a.	2	n.a.
Finland^[6]	n.a.	121	n.a.	121	0	0
Iceland^[7]	3	6	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway^[8]	24	n.a.	24	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland^[9]	0	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
^#: count of main first name only
^&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Hope.

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
↑ Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
↑ Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/