Tempest
Tempest is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 12 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 120.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 199098 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1915
- 1,306people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,306 girls have been named Tempest in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1990, with 98 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1993, and the 1990s alone account for 31%.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Tempest | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 10 | |
| 1920s | 10 | |
| 1930s | 5 | |
| 1940s | 6 | |
| 1950s | 11 | |
| 1960s | 76 | |
| 1970s | 28 | |
| 1980s | 286 | |
| 1990s | 402 | |
| 2000s | 187 | |
| 2010s | 212 | |
| 2020s | 73 |
In 1990, its biggest year
Tempest was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1990 were Jessica, Ashley, Brittany, Amanda and Samantha. See all of 1990.
Names that rose and fell with Tempest
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Raisapeak 1988
- Janaypeak 1987
- Vanitypeak 1988
- Malorypeak 1987
- Mallorypeak 1986
- Alysepeak 1988
- Alyssepeak 1988
- Stevipeak 1988
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.