MEANING & HISTORY
What does Lope mean?
Lope is a Spanish given name continuing Latin Lupus, wolf. It belongs to a long European tradition of personal names formed from animal words.
The connection also explains related forms such as Portuguese Lopo. The animal gloss describes the historical linguistic source, rather than assigning a fierce temperament to the person. The Spanish name is distinct from the unrelated English verb lope despite their identical spelling.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
Synthetic voice reading
Wiktionary / Kaikki / Wiktextract · CC BY-SA 4.0
Origin and name formation
Spanish / Latin
Dictionary accounts by language
Spanish
Ultimately from Latin lupus (“wolf”) but borrowed through Basque Lope~Lop, hence the preservation of intervocalic /p/. The final /e/ may derive from the Latin vocative ending -e. Compare the doublet lobo (“wolf”), which Spanish directly inherited from Latin.
a male given name
Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract; common glosses translated for Filipino.
People with the name Lope
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Lope K. Santos
Filipino novelist (1879-1963)
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Lope Pascual
Filipino military general and sports administrator
Descriptions: Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Similar names to Lope
Explore names with a similar opening or ending.
Names in this collection
- Hope♀Hope; English virtue name
- Love♀Love or affection
- Tope♂Christ-bearer, through familiar Christopher
- Lois♀Greek biblical name of Timothy’s grandmother
- Lorie·Established variant of Lori
- Lou♂♀Short form of Louis, Louise or Louisa
- Louie♂♀Familiar form of Louis, Louise or Louisa
- Lowel♂Often associated in secondary name guides with: A spelling of Lowell, from a wolf nickname
Explore Lope further
Records & sources
Recorded use
- OpenHalalan / COMELEC · 2001
- 8 elected-candidate records ·
LOPE
· CSV row 6,301 · ODbL 1.0 - Wikidata
- 2 person records with this given name · Q16833196 · CC0
These records document use of the spelling; they are separate from birth statistics.
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
- Wikidata given-name item Q16833196 — Lope (opens in a new tab)
- Wikidata — Lope K. Santos (opens in a new tab)
- Wikidata — Lope Pascual (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary contributors — Lope (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: Lope (opens in a new tab)