Temprance
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.
Temprance by the numbers
Temprance was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 27 babies in 2011, so it is a 2010s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Temprance
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Temprance. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Temperancemoderation; virtue name from Latin temperantia189 in the US (2017)
- Temprencevirtue of moderation and self-restraint; a form of Temperance7 in the US (2017)
- Torrancefrom the town of Torrance; rocky hills51 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Temprance
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