Tempie
Tempie was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 1,681 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tempie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tempie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tempie is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tempie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,968, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
39 babies in 1918, the peak
Tempie peaked in 1918, when 39 girls were given it, #1,211 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #18,968 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,286 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,781 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #9,008 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,811 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,325 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,557 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,456 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,369 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,521 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 10 | #5,495 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,310 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,547 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,406 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,232 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,469 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,325 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,246 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,238 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,450 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,498 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 11 | #4,007 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,525 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,913 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,139 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 19 | #2,626 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,138 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,425 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,775 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,102 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,647 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 19 | #2,332 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,482 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,759 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,308 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,583 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,188 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,439 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,177 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,380 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 21 | #1,787 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,725 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 29 | #1,410 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,841 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 22 | #1,634 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 30 | #1,351 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,275 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,142 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 17 | #2,025 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,864 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,805 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,570 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,955 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 20 | #2,014 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 39 | #1,258 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,365 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 33 | #1,471 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 28 | #1,589 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 35 | #1,361 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 32 | #1,473 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 32 | #1,435 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 35 | #1,319 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 39 | #1,211 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,833 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 30 | #1,356 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 32 | #1,251 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 29 | #1,144 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 35 | #912 | 0.06 |
| 1912 | 26 | #1,029 | 0.05 |
| 1911 | 19 | #1,029 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 22 | #936 | 0.06 |
| 1909 | 14 | #1,142 | 0.04 |
| 1908 | 13 | #1,193 | 0.04 |
| 1907 | 19 | #895 | 0.06 |
| 1906 | 19 | #868 | 0.06 |
| 1905 | 15 | #1,005 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 14 | #996 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 18 | #833 | 0.07 |
| 1902 | 18 | #844 | 0.07 |
| 1901 | 16 | #853 | 0.07 |
| 1900 | 22 | #797 | 0.07 |
| 1899 | 19 | #754 | 0.08 |
| 1898 | 23 | #696 | 0.09 |
| 1897 | 15 | #865 | 0.06 |
| 1896 | 18 | #788 | 0.08 |
| 1895 | 19 | #741 | 0.08 |
| 1894 | 15 | #810 | 0.07 |
| 1893 | 11 | #952 | 0.05 |
| 1892 | 18 | #704 | 0.08 |
| 1891 | 17 | #664 | 0.09 |
| 1890 | 17 | #664 | 0.09 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,259 | 0.03 |
| 1888 | 15 | #684 | 0.08 |
| 1887 | 10 | #786 | 0.07 |
| 1886 | 9 | #822 | 0.06 |
| 1885 | 13 | #624 | 0.10 |
| 1884 | 18 | #499 | 0.14 |
| 1883 | 7 | #811 | 0.06 |
| 1882 | 14 | #503 | 0.13 |
| 1881 | 7 | #735 | 0.08 |
| 1880 | 5 | #931 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tempie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tempie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 101 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tempie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tempie, and how old are they?
An estimated 414 Americans named Tempie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (25% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 61 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 520 people named Tempie (512 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 512 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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).
Where are babies named Tempie born?
The states with the most babies named Tempie are North Carolina, Alabama and Georgia, with 80% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 139 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Alabama | 59 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Georgia | 28 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Mississippi | 25 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 25 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Tempie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Tempie is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 3.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Tempie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,732 babies since 1880, Tempie is the most given (97% 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 Tempie
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 Tempie and names like it
- Compare Tempie and TempaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sTempie peaked in 1918.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Tempie since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Tempie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Tempie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with TMost given first.