Esperanza is a girl's name of Spanish origin meaning “hope.” In 2024 it was given to 249 girls in the United States.
Esperanza at a glance
Gender
Girl name
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
“hope”
About the name Esperanza
Esperanza belongs to the Spanish tradition. Its meaning — “hope” — is the sense carried by its Spanish roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Esperanza first appears in Social Security records in 1903. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #446 in 1929, and in 2024 249 babies received the name — 20,654 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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