Girls' name · since 2007
Temprance
Temprance has 154 recorded births since 2007 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2011 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #22,530 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 154
- born since 2007
- 2010s
- peak decade
Temprance sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 154 recorded since 2007.
Temprance has 154 recorded births among girls since 2007, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2007 to 2018.
- #22,530 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 154 born since 2007
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Temprance ranks #22,530 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 154 born since 2007, peaking in the 2010s.
- #22,530 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 154
- born since 2007
- 2010s
- peak decade
Temprance's 154 recorded births place it above 68.84% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Temprance's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Temprance's full recorded timeline at 2013, 39% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 61% in the earlier half -- the name was more prevalent in its earlier era than it is today. Its quietest year on record was 2017, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2011 peak of 27 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Temprance popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2007–2018
- Peak year (2011)
- 27
- Annual births at peak, across 12 years of records
Temprance by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (118 births, 77% of the file).
2010s was Temprance's strongest decade.
118 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 77% of all-time use.
Temprance births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 36
2000s
36 births
- 2010s
2010s
118 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 118 births (77% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Temprance: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Similar record span (~11 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2007–2018 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Temprance draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.