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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Temple

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

#10,836

down −1,331 places

2025 births

9

down −2 births

All-time births

1,568

1% of them in 2025

More common than

92%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1971
88 births
Best rank
#1,161
in 1884
First recorded
1884
#1,161 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1971
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
115 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 197188#1,264Peak
  2. 196968#1,420
  3. 197242#1,967
  4. 197036#2,237
  5. 196234#2,022

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,161 in 1884 · peak births 88 in 1971

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 35% boys■ 65% girls

828 boys · 1,568 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Temple has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.