Girl · Latin
Temperance
Say it: TEM-per-unss
Meaning
From Latin temperantia 'moderation, self-control'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
One of the virtue names taken up by English Puritans in the late 16th century and carried to New England.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 2010s
In the United States
- 3,167 babies given this name since 1916
- At its height in 2012, about 1 in 5,500 girls
- 147 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
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Where this comes from
- Puritan church and town records of England and New England
- Colonial records of the Americas
- Parish baptism registers
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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