Hopper
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) acrobat or tumbler; (ii) hop-grower or hop-seller; (iii) nickname for a lame person
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hɑpɚ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hopper is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. In Myanmar (Burma) it is the 48th most common given name.
- MMMyanmar (Burma)≈1 in 11Kas Phoe(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 45Kas Per
- GHGhana≈1 in 554K
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 Hopper 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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 434 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 554K (inferred from the name graph)
165,022 named Per
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Phoe in MM Myanmar (Burma).
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)
(i) acrobat or tumbler; (ii) hop-grower or hop-seller; (iii) nickname for a lame person
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Hopper, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hopper 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | — | 165,022as Per | 1 in 62 | 165K | Hopper | 26 |
| NO Norway | — | 32,539as Per | 1 in 168 | 78K | — | 16 |
| DK Denmark | — | 27,640as Per | 1 in 212 | 28K | Hopper | 10 |
| US United States | — | 7,475as Per | 1 in 45K | 27K | Hopper | 434 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #48 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Phoe | 28 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,721as Per | 1 in 3.2K | 4.2K | — | 8 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 554K | — | Hopper | 7 |
165,022 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling per. 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 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Hopper 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 English, metonymic for hopper; first attested Hugh Hoppeoverhumbr’ 1220 Cur (Sx)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
occupational name for a professional tumbler or acrobat, or a nickname for a restless individual with plenty of energy. Middle English hoppere, an agent derivative of Old English hoppian ‘to hop’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
nickname from an agent derivative of Middle High German, Middle Low German happen ‘to limp or stumble’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
occupational name for a hop grower or seller, from Middle Dutch hoppe ‘hop(s)’ -F the agent suffix -er.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, One who or that which hops.
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)
- Edward Hopperb. 1882USAmerican realist painter and printmaker (1882-1967)
- Hedda Hopperb. 1885USAmerican gossip columnist and actress (1885–1966)
- E. Mason Hopperb. 1885USfilm director (1885-1967)
- Grace Hopperb. 1906USAmerican computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
- Jerry Hopperb. 1907USAmerican film director (1907–1988)
- William Hopperb. 1915USAmerican actor (1915–1970)
- Dennis Hopperb. 1936USAmerican actor and film director (1936–2010)
- Hugh Hopperb. 1945GBEnglish bass guitarist (1945–2009)
- Tom Hopperb. 1985GBBritish actor (b. 1985)
- Henry Hopperb. 1990USAmerican actor
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 27K | #1,281 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 27K | #1,192 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 26K | #1,328 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 43 | #25,922 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 28 | #19,753 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 10 | #40,537 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #61,705 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Hopper mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) acrobat or tumbler; (ii) hop-grower or hop-seller; (iii) nickname for a lame person Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Hopper?
- A machine transcription gives /hɑpɚ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hopper have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 165 thousand people named Per, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hopper?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 165,022 people named Per, about 1 in 62 residents.
- How common is Hopper compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Hopper is the 48th most common given name of 9,528 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hopper?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hopperThe 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, “Hopper” — the 48th most common given name in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.