Tempest

#6,838 for girls in 2025, 16 births

Peak · girls
1990 · 98 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,322
since 1915

Tempest over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Tempest has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201992peak #1,557, 1990girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#6,83816
2024#8,44312
2023#6,68017
2022#9,05611
2021#6,17419
2020#7,55914
2019#4,90927
2018#5,78521
2017#7,09216
2016#5,44524
2015#6,45219
2014#5,16326
2013#8,13514
2012#5,89522
2011#5,72823
2010#6,38220
2009#5,70924
2008#8,52914
2007#8,09815
2006#6,12521
2005#8,33013
2004#7,39115
2003#4,41829
2002#5,25422
2001#5,17422
2000#8,02712
1999#5,21920
1998#3,73031
1997#4,66022
1996#3,23736
1995#3,02238
1994#4,52122
1993#3,68129
1992#2,45952
1991#2,35654
1990#1,55798
1989#1,89869
1988#2,36946
1987#1,73369
1986#2,42041
1985#2,39841
1984#7,3988
1983#10,2755
1982
1981#8,1287
1980
1979#10,2105
1978
1977#8,4446
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1973#7,4356
1972
1971#8,3245
1970#7,0706
1969#5,4568
1968
1967#6,8045
1966#3,74012
1965
1964#4,6369
1963#3,33615
1962#4,01111
1961#4,8828
1960#4,7738
1959#6,2455
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1957#5,3776
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1944#4,0546
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1930#4,5505
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1924#5,0615
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1921#5,0995
1920
1919#4,8145
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1915#4,2745
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First appearance
1915

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
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
75 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1915
  • Peaked 1990 at #1,557 (98 births)
  • Births halved by 1993, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 19,373
  • 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%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 30.4% of all girls named Tempest (402) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s10#4,274 (1915)#4,544
1920s10#5,061 (1924)#5,080
1930s5#4,550 (1930)#4,550
1940s6#4,054 (1944)#4,054
1950s11#5,377 (1957)#5,811
1960s76#3,336 (1963)#4,705
1970s28#7,070 (1970)#8,297
1980s286#1,733 (1987)#4,577
1990s402#1,557 (1990)#3,444
2000s187#4,418 (2003)#6,706
2010s212#4,909 (2019)#6,099
2020s89#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 1992

girls
#2,459
52 births · 1 in 35,460 girls

Top girls' names in 1992

  1. #1Ashley38,460
  2. #2Jessica38,361
  3. #3Amanda25,039
  4. #4Brittany24,983
  5. #5Sarah24,634
  6. #6Samantha24,407
  7. #7Emily21,835
  8. #8Stephanie19,680
  9. #9Elizabeth19,035
  10. #10Megan17,842
  11. #2,459Tempest52
More about 1992

girls

1,843,931 girls got a published name in 1992; 1 in 35,460 of them was named Tempest, which outranked 84.2% of the 15,610 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Tempest
  1. #2,433Tammie53
  2. #2,433Tanaya53
  3. #2,433Zachary53
  4. #2,459Tempest52
  5. #2,459Ahsley52
  6. #2,459Alexzandra52
  7. #2,459Anakaren52
  8. #2,488Alexzandria51
  9. #2,488Ambrosia51
  10. #2,488Bessie51

Tied with 28 names at #2,459; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1991
Risers
  1. 2,282Darian#2,989#707
  2. 1,958Payton#2,660#702
  3. 1,450Peyton#2,034#584
  4. 1,115Chandler#1,656#541
  5. 1,080Brianda#1,857#777
Fallers
  1. 855Rebeccah#1,000#1,855
  2. 725Ieshia#717#1,442
  3. 502Miesha#997#1,499
  4. 470Unknown#794#1,264
  5. 356Phylicia#928#1,284

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1992