Entry № 4360 · English origin

Hopper Hopper — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HOP-er /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Dancer (Edward Hopper; Grace Hopper)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "dancer (edward hopper; grace hopper)".

Hopper is from the Old English hoppere — a dancer or jumper. Hopper Stinson — Stranger Things character.

Dancer (Edward Hopper; Grace Hopper) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Hopper
Transliteration
Hopper
Pronunciation
/ ˈhɒp.ər /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hopper stands.

Hopper 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.

Hoppers before her.

Real people
Grace Hopper
American computer pioneer.
1906 – 1992
Dennis Hopper
American Easy Rider actor.
1936 – 2010
In fiction
Hopper
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Hopper.

The number behind Hopper.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hopper reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.