Tempie
Tempie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 499th, in 1884.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191839 births
- Best rank
- #499in 1884
- Since 1880
- 1,681people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,681 girls have been named Tempie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 39 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 39 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1923, and the 1910s alone account for 17%. It has spent 28 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Tempie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 104 | |
| 1890s | 172 | |
| 1900s | 168 | |
| 1910s | 287 | |
| 1920s | 268 | |
| 1930s | 197 | |
| 1940s | 159 | |
| 1950s | 153 | |
| 1960s | 95 | |
| 1970s | 54 | |
| 1980s | 13 | |
| 1990s | 6 | |
| 2010s | 5 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Tempie was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Tempie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Leliapeak 1919
- Izorapeak 1915
- Clemmiepeak 1916
- Orapeak 1919
- Ethapeak 1920
- Susiepeak 1919
- Pinkiepeak 1920
- Lilliepeak 1919
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.