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Temperance

#2,034 in 2025Girls' name

Moderation

Temperance has been given to 3,709 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #2,034 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 324 recorded.

Babies named Temperance, 2025

1 in 35,300

Temperance over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Temperance: meaning, origin, and history

Moderation

English

What Temperance means

Temperance means “moderation”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From temperance. A virtue name first used by Puritans in the 16th century.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Temperance (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Temperance is used in English. Its origins include English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,709 girls were recorded with the name Temperance between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 324 in 2014; its best national rank was #836 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,467 in 2020 to #2,034 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,053 in 2015 to #2,034 in 2025.

How common is Temperance?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 35,300
94 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 17,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,034
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
24,447 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Temperance sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 24,447 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Temperance. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Temperances were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Temperance was born before 2014 — so the typical Temperance is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
65.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,704
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 65.2% of all recorded uses (2,419).

Is Temperance rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+64
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−567
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−981
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.37×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.0%
Peak was 2014 (324)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#836
2012

Where Temperance is used

Across 2016–2025, Temperance was most concentrated in Missouri — about 1 in 4,167 girls, against 1 in 13,102 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 33,333).

324 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Missouri1 in 4,167
  2. 2Idaho1 in 4,545
  3. 3Indiana1 in 4,545
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 5,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 5,882
  6. 6Ohio1 in 6,250
  7. 7Wisconsin1 in 6,667
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 7,692

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Temperance around the world

Where Temperance ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    2008–2025
    #3,089
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2006–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Temperance by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,034
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 567
Best rank ever
#836
2012
Peak year
2014
324 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,709
Count in 2025
94

Names similar to Temperance

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Temperance

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Temperance, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Temperance

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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