girls:
3.5k births since 1916
#2912 (49th percentile)
overall:
3.5k births since 1916
#4612 (40th percentile)
The name Temperance is the #4,612 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,518 recorded births since 1916. This represents the 40.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 40.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,912 (49.0% percentile) for all time with 3,518 births since 1916.
Temperance first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1916 (first recorded for girls in 1916). Birth data for Temperance is available in 50 out of the 108 years between 1916 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Temperance reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 33.1% percentile (ranked #627) with 166 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 166 births per million (ranked 33.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Temperance ranks #853 for girls (9.9% percentile) with 57 births per million, which is 34.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Temperance".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Temperance. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.8% confident that Temperance is pronounced as TEHM-per-uhns, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TEHM-pruhns, at 15.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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