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Temperance: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 94 in 2025. Its best rank was #836 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #836 in 2012; #2,034 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Temperance in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,034 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #836.
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Temperance: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 94 girls in 2025. Peak: #836 in 2012 · most girls in one year: 324 (2014).
In 2025, 94 US girls were named Temperance, making it the 2,034th most common girls’ name of the year, up 64 places from #2,098 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 92 girls named Temperance in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #836, reached in 2012. The most girls given the name in a single year was 324, in 2014. For comparison, it was #1,053 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Temperance in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 5 babies. In all, 3,709 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,419 babies named Temperance.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,426 US girls were named Temperance; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 235. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,099 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Temperance ranked highest in Wisconsin in 2025, at #779 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Temperence are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Tempy.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Temperence (77).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 6 | #779 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,192 | #936 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,427 | #734 |
| New York | 6 | #2,049 | #1,942 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 94 | #2,034 | — | — |
| 2024 | 92 | #2,098 | — | — |
| 2023 | 100 | #1,982 | — | — |
| 2022 | 125 | #1,683 | — | — |
| 2021 | 123 | #1,695 | — | — |
| 2020 | 147 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 2019 | 156 | #1,435 | — | — |
| 2018 | 164 | #1,376 | — | — |
| 2017 | 190 | #1,250 | — | — |
| 2016 | 235 | #1,096 | — | — |
| 2015 | 251 | #1,053 | — | — |
| 2014 | 324 | #851 | — | — |
| 2013 | 289 | #891 | — | — |
| 2012 | 321 | #836 | — | — |
| 2011 | 274 | #944 | — | — |
| 2010 | 215 | #1,142 | — | — |
| 2009 | 165 | #1,424 | — | — |
| 2008 | 88 | #2,251 | — | — |
| 2007 | 78 | #2,432 | — | — |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,575 | — | — |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,911 | — | — |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,927 | — | — |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,875 | — | — |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,961 | — | — |
| 1999 | 6 | #14,275 | — | — |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,250 | — | — |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,519 | — | — |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,699 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,470 | — | — |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,692 | — | — |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,437 | — | — |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,948 | — | — |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,443 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,700 | — | — |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,338 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,183 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,785 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,571 | — | — |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,750 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,984 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #12,147 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,297 | — | — |
| 1980 | 8 | #8,107 | — | — |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,394 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,587 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,374 | — | — |
| 1976 | 10 | #6,008 | — | — |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,950 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,655 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,666 | — | — |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,900 | — | — |
| 1916 | 5 | #5,079 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).