Hope comes from the Old English hopa, meaning "trust" or "expectation." It became a Puritan virtue name in the 17th century — one of the three theological virtues (Faith, Hope, Charity) from 1 Corinthians 13.
Hope has been in the U.S. top 500 for over a century.
Hope does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hope reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.