Given name & surname
Hopper
“to stumble, limp”·“humulus lupulus”
Hopper is a surname with more than one origin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a German surname, it goes back to a word meaning “to stumble, limp.” As a Dutch surname, it goes back to a word meaning “humulus lupulus.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Hopper has more than one origin: as a German surname, it goes back to a word meaning “to stumble, limp”; as a Dutch surname, it goes back to a word meaning “humulus lupulus”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2009. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hopper through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 92
- 92 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2019
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,218 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +24%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,218 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 2019. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 109 as a first name in 2020; 26,014 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hopper’s family of names
Hopper has a related form in Hopkins. In English usage, Hopper as a surname has a related form in HOPPE.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Hopper
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Appears in
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