Tempa
Tempa was last recorded in 1966, when 5 babies were given it; 51 Americans have been recorded with it between 1911 and 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tempa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tempa?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,517, in 1966; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
8 babies in 1916, the peak
Tempa peaked in 1916, when 8 girls were given it, #3,511 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 5 | #7,517 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,841 | 3.6 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,787 | 4.8 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,394 | 5.6 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,342 | 5.8 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,511 | 7.7 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,754 | 7.1 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,820 | 12.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tempa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tempa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 8 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tempa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tempa, and how old are they?
An estimated 12 Americans named Tempa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 123 people named Tempa (112 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,732 babies since 1880, Tempa is the second most given (2.9% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Tempa and names like it
- Compare Tempa and TempieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sTempa peaked in 1916.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Tempa.
- Names starting with TMost given first.