Tempest
#6,838 for girls in 2025, 16 births
- Peak · girls
- 1990 · 98 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,322since 1915
Tempest over time
Rank among girls' names. Tempest has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,838 | 16 |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 |
| 2023 | #6,680 | 17 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 |
| 2021 | #6,174 | 19 |
| 2020 | #7,559 | 14 |
| 2019 | #4,909 | 27 |
| 2018 | #5,785 | 21 |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 |
| 2016 | #5,445 | 24 |
| 2015 | #6,452 | 19 |
| 2014 | #5,163 | 26 |
| 2013 | #8,135 | 14 |
| 2012 | #5,895 | 22 |
| 2011 | #5,728 | 23 |
| 2010 | #6,382 | 20 |
| 2009 | #5,709 | 24 |
| 2008 | #8,529 | 14 |
| 2007 | #8,098 | 15 |
| 2006 | #6,125 | 21 |
| 2005 | #8,330 | 13 |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 |
| 2003 | #4,418 | 29 |
| 2002 | #5,254 | 22 |
| 2001 | #5,174 | 22 |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 |
| 1999 | #5,219 | 20 |
| 1998 | #3,730 | 31 |
| 1997 | #4,660 | 22 |
| 1996 | #3,237 | 36 |
| 1995 | #3,022 | 38 |
| 1994 | #4,521 | 22 |
| 1993 | #3,681 | 29 |
| 1992 | #2,459 | 52 |
| 1991 | #2,356 | 54 |
| 1990 | #1,557 | 98 |
| 1989 | #1,898 | 69 |
| 1988 | #2,369 | 46 |
| 1987 | #1,733 | 69 |
| 1986 | #2,420 | 41 |
| 1985 | #2,398 | 41 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 |
| 1982 | — | |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 |
| 1980 | — | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 |
| 1978 | — | |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 |
| 1976 | — | |
| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | — | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 |
| 1972 | — | |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 |
| 1966 | #3,740 | 12 |
| 1965 | — | |
| 1964 | #4,636 | 9 |
| 1963 | #3,336 | 15 |
| 1962 | #4,011 | 11 |
| 1961 | #4,882 | 8 |
| 1960 | #4,773 | 8 |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 |
| 1958 | — | |
| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 |
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| 1944 | #4,054 | 6 |
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| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 |
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| 1924 | #5,061 | 5 |
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| 1921 | #5,099 | 5 |
| 1920 | — | |
| 1919 | #4,814 | 5 |
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| 1915 | #4,274 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Tempest! It came in at #4,274, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1943, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Tempest
- 1,605 spots since 2024 (#8,443 → #6,838)
- 721 spots since 2020 (#7,559 → #6,838)
- 386 spots since 2015 (#6,452 → #6,838)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 1990 at #1,557 (98 births)
- Births halved by 1993, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 19,373 girls born in 1990 were named Tempest (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 100,454 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 30.4% of all girls named Tempest (402) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 10 | #4,274 (1915) | #4,544 |
| 1920s | 10 | #5,061 (1924) | #5,080 |
| 1930s | 5 | #4,550 (1930) | #4,550 |
| 1940s | 6 | #4,054 (1944) | #4,054 |
| 1950s | 11 | #5,377 (1957) | #5,811 |
| 1960s | 76 | #3,336 (1963) | #4,705 |
| 1970s | 28 | #7,070 (1970) | #8,297 |
| 1980s | 286 | #1,733 (1987) | #4,577 |
| 1990s | 402 | #1,557 (1990) | #3,444 |
| 2000s | 187 | #4,418 (2003) | #6,706 |
| 2010s | 212 | #4,909 (2019) | #6,099 |
| 2020s | 89 | #6,174 (2021) | #7,458 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Tempest in 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
More about 1989
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1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 26,718 of them was named Tempest, which outranked 87.0% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,873Tammie70
- #1,873Thomas70
- #1,873Torie70
- #1,898Tempest69
- #1,898Andreana69
- #1,898Brea69
- #1,898Danyel69
- #1,910Bianka68
- #1,910Brittiny68
- #1,910Catharine68
Tied with 11 names at #1,898; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.