Hope is thinner ground etymologically than most concepts in this Atlas, and it is worth saying so rather than manufacturing depth.
Latin spēs gives Speranza, Esperanza and the Romance family, and it is one of the Roman personified virtues with a temple of her own. Greek elpís gives Elpida and its relatives, still current in Greece. Both are ancient words with no especially illuminating etymology.
The English name Hope, like Faith on the neighbouring page, is a Puritan virtue name from the sixteenth century rather than an inheritance from Latin.
Arabic amal means hope and is very widely used; Hebrew tikvah — the word in the title of the Israeli national anthem — comes from a root meaning to wait or to stretch out, hope as tension rather than as expectation.
What is more interesting than the vocabulary is the distribution. Hope-names cluster in the traditions and periods where hope was least secure: they are common among displaced populations, in the aftermath of wars, and in communities with high infant mortality. They are, more often than not, given by people who need them.