Temperance
#2,017 for girls in 2025, 94 births
- Peak · girls
- 2012 · 321 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,709since 1916
Temperance over time
Rank among girls' names. Temperance has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,017 | 94 |
| 2024 | #2,080 | 92 |
| 2023 | #1,965 | 100 |
| 2022 | #1,677 | 125 |
| 2021 | #1,680 | 123 |
| 2020 | #1,459 | 147 |
| 2019 | #1,429 | 156 |
| 2018 | #1,371 | 164 |
| 2017 | #1,248 | 190 |
| 2016 | #1,094 | 235 |
| 2015 | #1,049 | 251 |
| 2014 | #850 | 324 |
| 2013 | #889 | 289 |
| 2012 | #834 | 321 |
| 2011 | #940 | 274 |
| 2010 | #1,136 | 215 |
| 2009 | #1,420 | 165 |
| 2008 | #2,234 | 88 |
| 2007 | #2,418 | 78 |
| 2006 | #6,356 | 20 |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 |
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| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 |
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| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 |
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| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 |
| 1991 | #6,588 | 13 |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
| 1972 | #5,480 | 9 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Temperance! It came in at #4,417, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1971, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Temperance is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oregon#219 · 1 in 873
- Iowa#295 · 1 in 1,253
- Idaho#311 · 1 in 1,061
- West Virginia#329 · 1 in 1,321
- Nebraska#411 · 1 in 1,550
Best ever in a state: #104 in Wyoming, 2013.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | #219 | 17 | 1 in 873 |
| Iowa | #295 | 10 | 1 in 1,253 |
| Idaho | #311 | 6 | 1 in 1,061 |
| West Virginia | #329 | 5 | 1 in 1,321 |
| Nebraska | #411 | 5 | 1 in 1,550 |
| Wisconsin | #425 | 12 | 1 in 1,921 |
| Missouri | #443 | 13 | 1 in 2,071 |
| Kentucky | #483 | 8 | 1 in 2,268 |
| Michigan | #516 | 16 | 1 in 2,573 |
| Nevada | #517 | 5 | 1 in 2,065 |
| Kansas | #526 | 6 | 1 in 2,193 |
| Ohio | #539 | 18 | 1 in 2,865 |
| Arkansas | #550 | 5 | 1 in 2,278 |
| Oklahoma | #550 | 7 | 1 in 2,355 |
| Indiana | #599 | 10 | 1 in 3,003 |
| Washington | #641 | 10 | 1 in 3,045 |
| Tennessee | #657 | 9 | 1 in 3,319 |
| Utah | #733 | 5 | 1 in 3,581 |
| North Carolina | #756 | 11 | 1 in 3,996 |
| Georgia | #763 | 12 | 1 in 3,943 |
| Virginia | #812 | 8 | 1 in 4,548 |
| Maryland | #870 | 5 | 1 in 4,819 |
| Pennsylvania | #907 | 9 | 1 in 5,861 |
| Florida | #1,051 | 12 | 1 in 6,636 |
| Arizona | #1,108 | 5 | 1 in 6,195 |
| Texas | #1,203 | 20 | 1 in 7,916 |
| Illinois | #1,304 | 7 | 1 in 8,394 |
| New York | #1,490 | 9 | 1 in 10,252 |
| California | #1,559 | 17 | 1 in 12,299 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Temperance
- 63 spots since 2024 (#2,080 → #2,017)
- 558 spots since 2020 (#1,459 → #2,017)
- 968 spots since 2015 (#1,049 → #2,017)
- Biggest jump: 196 spots in 2011 (#1,136 → #940)
- Biggest drop: 199 spots in 2015 (#850 → #1,049)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 2012 at #834 (321 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2011–2014
- Highest: 1 in 5,486 girls born in 2012 were named Temperance (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 17,099 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 65.2% of all girls named Temperance (2,419) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #4,417 (1916) | #4,417 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 64 | #5,092 (1979) | #6,847 |
| 1980s | 73 | #6,291 (1984) | #8,505 |
| 1990s | 89 | #6,131 (1990) | #8,672 |
| 2000s | 378 | #1,420 (2009) | #8,112 |
| 2010s | 2,419 | #834 (2012) | #1,084 |
| 2020s | 681 | #1,459 (2020) | #1,813 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Temperance in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
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1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 5,486 of them was named Temperance, which outranked 95.7% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).