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Tempest

#7,101 in 2025Girls' name

Storm

Tempest has been given to 1,322 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #7,101 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 98 recorded.

Babies named Tempest, 2025

1 in 207,000

Tempest 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tempest: meaning, origin, and history

Storm

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tempest means

Tempest means “storm”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,322 girls were recorded with the name Tempest between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 98 in 1990; its best national rank was #1,562 in 1990.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,915 in 2020 to #7,101 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,699 in 2015 to #7,101 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Tempest?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,101
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tempest 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tempest. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tempests were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tempest was born before 1993 — so the typical Tempest is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
30.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,291
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 30.4% of all recorded uses (402).

Is Tempest 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
+1,793
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+814
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−402
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.84×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.3%
Peak was 1990 (98)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,562
1990

Spellings of Tempest

Tempest is the most-used spelling, taking 67.3% of the 1,965 babies given a near-identical spelling.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Tempest is used

Across 1910–2025, Tempest was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 484,751 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in —
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Louisiana1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8North Carolina1 in —

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. Tempest has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tempest around the world

Where Tempest 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.

  • South Australia
    1990–1990
    #691
    in 1990

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tempest by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,101
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 814
Best rank ever
#1,562
1990
Peak year
1990
98 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,322
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Tempest

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

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Sibling names for Tempest

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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