Hope vs Lark

Hope

name
  • A male given name transferred from the surname. 

  • A settlement near Richmond, Tasman district, New Zealand. 

  • An English and Scottish topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived in a hop, a small enclosed valley. 

  • A female given name from English from the virtue, like Faith and Charity first used by Puritans. 

  • A town and district municipality in British Columbia, Canada. 

  • A village in High Peak borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK1783). 

  • A city, the county seat of Hempstead County, Arkansas, United States. 

  • A village and community in Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ3058). 

Lark

name
  • A male given name transferred from the surname, of occasional usage. 

  • A surname originating as a patronymic shortened from Larkin, a medieval diminutive of Laurence. 

  • A female given name from English from the lark bird. 

  • A river in England, on the border between Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. 

  • A surname transferred from the nickname, from lark as a byname or for a catcher and seller of larks. 

How often have the words Hope and Lark occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )