Temperance

A girls’ name of Old English origin, meaning moderation; virtue name from Latin temperantia.

Babies a year
189
the US, 2017
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#4867
4 babies

Temperance by the numbers

In 2025, 4 babies in England and Wales were named Temperance. In the US, 189 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 322 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Temperance. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Temprance5 in the US (2017)
  • Temprencevirtue of moderation and self-restraint; a form of Temperance7 in the US (2017)

Other names that mean purity

Like Temperance, each of these has purity in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.

  • Lillianlily; purity6,139 in the US (2017)
  • Lilythe lily flower; purity2,249 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Katherinepure2,833 in the US (2017)
  • Jadejade stone; symbol of virtue and beauty2,765 in the US (2017)
  • Lilianalily; purity2,747 in the US (2017)
  • Catherinepure; clear1,573 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Temperance

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