Hop
given name · Latin script
Meaning: , -A interj. si subst
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/hwp˦˥/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hop is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 642K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 351K
- SESweden1 in 464K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hop itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- 1 in 351K (inferred from the name graph)
518 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hoep in NL Netherlands.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
, -A interj. si subst. 1. Hopu fam. ($ez) ; C-tin din Vdlenii de Munte 1772 (BCI VII 123). 2. +-cea, Hopcea (Vr). 3. +-incu, Hopincu, D. (Buc). 4. Compus : Hopu-lele, Har. mold. act. si Hopu-lele, 5. (Buc). 5. Cf. cu suf. -old, sau din altd temd, Hopotd, fam., ban. (Petr 15).
Sources 1
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hop counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 518 | 1 in 642K | 588 | Hop | 189 |
| SE Sweden | 22 | 1 in 464K | 22 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 11 | 1 in 3.5M | 115 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 7.4M | 2.3K | Hoep | 58 |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
518 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hop is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, alternative form of hap (“hop; blow”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, used to encourage the listener to jump up or some other action; hop up! hop to it!
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, hoopoe, the species Upupa epops or an individual of this species
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, together (into unity, contact, or accumulation – togetherness)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, head, (of an organisation), chief, boss
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hendrick Hopb. 1686NL8 December 1686 - 8 December 1761
- Tadeusz Hopb. 1920PLPolish civil engineer
- Vidar Hopb. 1958NONorwegian racing driver
- Ruth Mariann Hopb. 1974NONorwegian politician (born 1974)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 268 | #20,072 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 250 | #20,072 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 22 | #23,234 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 9 | #11,364 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9 | #10,206 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2 | #22,162 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #22,161 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Hop?
- A machine transcription gives /hwp˦˥/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- Is Hop a male or female name?
- Hop is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Hop mean?
- Recorded meaning: , -A interj. si subst.
- In which country does Hop have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 518 people named Hop, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hop.
- Where is Hop most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hop is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 351 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hop?
- In the United States, the national register counted 518 people named Hop in 2020, about 1 in 642 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Hop?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hopThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hop”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.