girls:
77 births since 2009
#5639 (1st percentile)
overall:
77 births since 2009
#7662 (1st percentile)
The name Temperence is the #7,662 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 77 recorded births since 2009. This represents the 1.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,639 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 77 births since 2009.
Temperence first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2009 (first recorded for girls in 2009). Birth data for Temperence is available in 8 out of the 12 years between 2009 and 2020. 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, Temperence reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #933) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Temperence".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Temperence. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Temperence is pronounced as TEHM-per-uhns, which has 3 syllables.
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