Temperance

Where Temperance comes from

From temperance. A virtue name first used by Puritans in the 16th century.
— Wiktionary's entry for Temperance
  • English
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1916
    First appearance
    #4,417 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2012
    Peak, #834
    321 babies named Temperance — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2019
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,429.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English.
Namesakes

No widely known Temperance turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.