Temperance
Temperance is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 90 births. Its best rank was 836th, in 2012.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 900.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2014323 births
- Best rank
- #836in 2012
- Since 1916
- 3,610people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,610 girls have been named Temperance in the United States since 1916, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 323 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2014, and the 2010s alone account for 67%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2014, its biggest year
Temperance was the 854th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2014 were Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Isabella and Ava. See all of 2014.
Names that rose and fell with Temperance
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nahlapeak 2011
- Khloeepeak 2011
- Kinleypeak 2012
- Anistynpeak 2014
- Evoletpeak 2014
- Kinleepeak 2014
- Khloepeak 2010
- Milaniapeak 2014
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.