Tempest
Tempest was given to 16 girls in 2025, #7,101 among girls’ names; 1,322 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,260 Americans named Tempest and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 17 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tempest by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Tempest?
#7,101 among girls’ names, 2025
Tempest fell from #6,699 in 2015 to #7,101 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.6 to 10.0 per million.
98 babies in 1990, the peak
Tempest peaked in 1990, when 98 girls were given it, #1,562 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #7,101 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,894 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,897 | 10.6 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,614 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,389 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,915 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 27 | #5,025 | 16.1 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,981 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,410 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,594 | 13.5 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,699 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,298 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,521 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,088 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,916 | 13.1 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,605 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,876 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,922 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,476 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,334 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,829 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,795 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,517 | 15.9 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,429 | 12.2 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,348 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,490 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,405 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,820 | 17.5 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,801 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,292 | 20.5 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,073 | 21.6 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,672 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,759 | 16.0 |
| 1992 | 52 | #2,480 | 28.2 |
| 1991 | 54 | #2,379 | 28.8 |
| 1990 | 98 | #1,562 | 51.6 |
| 1989 | 69 | #1,903 | 37.4 |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,407 | 25.8 |
| 1987 | 69 | #1,745 | 39.7 |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,464 | 23.9 |
| 1985 | 41 | #2,435 | 23.8 |
| 1984 | 8 | #8,086 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,913 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 7 | #9,007 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,810 | 3.1 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,539 | 3.9 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,327 | 4.1 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,498 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,910 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,927 | 4.7 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,745 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,932 | 7.1 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,972 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,449 | 7.8 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,237 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,262 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,131 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 5 | #7,115 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #6,020 | 2.9 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,518 | 4.5 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,173 | 4.4 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,805 | 4.0 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,774 | 4.1 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,474 | 4.4 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,881 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tempest a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tempest has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tempest: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tempest, and how old are they?
1,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,322 Americans ever recorded as Tempest. The median Tempest alive today is 32 years old; half are between 17 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 1,101 people named Tempest (1,065 women and girls, 36 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,187 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 53 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 49 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 599 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 321 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 235 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 1,965 babies since 1880, Tempest is the most given (67% 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tempest
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Tempest and names like it
- Compare Tempest and TempesttBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sTempest peaked in 1990.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tempest since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Tempest.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Tempest alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with TMost given first.