Hoppe
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hoppe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In English, recorded as from hop, a raised land in a fen or small enclosed valley (OE hop); first attested Walter Hoppe 1249 AssW.
- DEGermany≈1 in 2.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 36K
- DKDenmark1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 371 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈30,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from hop, a raised land in a fen or small enclosed valley (OE hop); first attested Walter Hoppe 1249 AssW
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hoppe is read(measured from records)
Hoppe is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English54%
from hop, a raised land in a fen or small enclosed valley (OE hop); first attested Walter Hoppe 1249 AssW
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
- German31%
Zu mhd. hopfe/mnd. hoppe(n) 'Hopfen'; Übername bzw. Berufsname zum Hopfenbau/-handel. Belegt: 16427 Träger; die Karte zeigt p/pf-Varianz aus westgerm. pp nach Vokal.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Deutscher Familienname mit labialer Konsonantenvariation: apokopiertes Hopp neben Hoppe; daneben Hopfe und Hopf, regional mit weiteren Varianten.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Deutscher Familienname; zeigt labiale Plosiv-/Affrikaten-Variation (pp/pf). Bearer count: 16427.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hoppe counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #127 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | listed | Hoppe | 202 |
| CN China | — | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Hoppe | 5 |
| US United States | — | 9,215 | 1 in 36K | 9.2K | Hoppe | 371 |
| PL Poland | — | 2,496 | 1 in 15K | 1.3K | Hoppe | 2 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Hoppe | 7 |
| DK Denmark | — | 446 | 1 in 13K | 446 | Hoppe | 56 |
| JO Jordan | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Hoppe | 1 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Hoppe | 6 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the dfa-band-2 register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hoppe is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
nickname from dialect happen ‘to hop’ (a variant of standard German hiipfen). This name is widespread throughout central Europe.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from North German Hopp (see Hopf), or the Danish byname Hoppe ‘horse’, ‘mare’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- David Heinrich Hoppeb. 1760DEGerman botanist (1760-1846)
- Emil Hoppeb. 1876ATAustrian architect (1876–1957)
- Marianne Hoppeb. 1909DEGerman actress (1909–2002)
- Paul-Werner Hoppeb. 1910DESS officer (1910-1974)
- Rolf Hoppeb. 1930DEGerman actor (1930–2018)
- Edgar Hoppeb. 1937DEGerman actor
- Hans-Hermann Hoppeb. 1949DEAustrian school economist and libertarian anarcho-capitalist philosopher
- Wolfgang Hoppeb. 1957DEEast German bobsledder and trainer
- Felicitas Hoppeb. 1960DEGerman writer
- Matthew Hoppeb. 2001USAmerican soccer player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.2K | #3,841 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.1K | #3,581 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.6K | #4,028 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.3K | #2,342 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.2K | #2,423 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 446 | #982 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 2 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hoppe mean, and where does it come from?
- from hop, a raised land in a fen or small enclosed valley (OE hop); first attested Walter Hoppe 1249 AssW Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Hoppe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Hoppe in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hoppe.
- How common is the name Hoppe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,215 people named Hoppe in 2010, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
- How common is Hoppe compared with other names?
- In Germany, Hoppe is the 127th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hoppe” — the 127th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.