Surname statistics for Hope

There are approximately 20,016 people named Hope in the UK. That makes it the 503rd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 317 are named Hope.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)20016503N/A317
United Kingdom (1881 census)101924230.034340
Change since 1881+9824-80-0.002-23
Other Countries
United States167101988N/A62
Australia2484644N/A152

Politics

People with the surname Hope are slightly more likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Conservative.

As of the most recent set of elections, the political parties represented by politicians called Hope are:

  1. Conservative (5)
  2. Liberal Democrat (3)
  3. Labour (1)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Hope
David Hope
Michael Hope
James Hope
Richard Hope
Peter Hope
Andrew Hope
Robert Hope
Paul Hope
Ian Hope
Christopher Hope
Stephen Hope
Colin Hope
Simon Hope
Kenneth Hope
Brian Hope
Mark Hope
Martin Hope
Alan Hope
Jonathan Hope

Top female forenames

Susan Hope
Gillian Hope
Sarah Hope
Karen Hope
Joanne Hope
Margaret Hope
Christine Hope
Patricia Hope
Anne Hope
Julie Hope
Elizabeth Hope
Mary Hope
Kathryn Hope
Sandra Hope
Helen Hope
Sharon Hope
Caroline Hope
Carol Hope
Pauline Hope
Louise Hope

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.