Entry № 9961 · Latin origin

Speranza Speranza — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ speh-RAHN-tsah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Hope (Italian + Lady Wilde theological virtue)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Italian)

A name that means "hope (italian + lady wilde theological virtue)".

Speranza is from the Italian Speranza — from the Latin spes (hope). Speranza is one of the three theological virtues in Catholic tradition — alongside Fede (faith) and Carità (charity) — central to St. Paul's 1 Corinthians 13:13. Lady Jane Wilde (Jane Francesca Agnes Elgee, 1821-1896) — Irish poet who wrote under the pen name Speranza — was the Irish nationalist poet of the Young Ireland movement and the mother of Oscar Wilde. Italian-Maltese-Spanish feminine name across modern Catholic communities.

Hope (Italian-Latin). theological virtue + St.

The name in its native script.

Speranza
Transliteration
Speranza
Pronunciation
/ spɛˈrɑːn.tsə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Speranza stands.

Speranza 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.

Speranzas before her.

Real people
Lady Jane Wilde (Speranza)
Young Ireland poet + Oscar Wilde's mother.
1821 – 1896
In fiction
Speranza
Italian hope theological virtue.

Names connected to Speranza.

The number behind Speranza.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Speranza reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.