girls:
1.5k births since 1884
#4202 (26th percentile)
boys:
821 births since 1888
#3766 (18th percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1884
#5451 (30th percentile)
The name Temple is the #5,451 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,369 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 29.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,202 (26.5% percentile) for all time with 1,548 births since 1884. For boys, it ranks #3,766 (17.8% percentile) for all time with 821 births since 1888.
Temple first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (1884 for girls and 1888 for boys). Birth data for Temple is available in 120 out of the 139 years between 1884 and 2022 (113 years for girls and 86 years for boys). 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.
The name Temple has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (65.3% of all recorded births). In 2022, 57.1% of babies named Temple were girls.
For girls, Temple reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 10.8% percentile (ranked #686) with 50 births per million. The name was most common in 1971, with 50 births per million (ranked 10.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Temple reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #640) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1888, with 38 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Temple".
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