Family name origins & meanings
- Dutch (de Hoop) : metonymic occupational name for a cooper, from Middle Dutch houp ‘hoop’.
- Dutch (van (der) Hoop) : habitational name from De Hoop in Gelderland or Hoop in Overijssel, or Ter Hope in Gistel, West Flanders (Belgium).
- North German : topographic name for someone who lived on a raised piece of land in a bog, hop, or a habitational name from a place named with this word.