# Temple (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/temple/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,396 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 828 / 1,568 (65% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 25 | 5,581 |
| 2011 | 14 | 8,582 |
| 2012 | 13 | 9,075 |
| 2013 | 24 | 5,631 |
| 2014 | 10 | 10,883 |
| 2015 | 11 | 10,091 |
| 2016 | 11 | 10,055 |
| 2017 | 15 | 7,806 |
| 2018 | 14 | 8,121 |
| 2019 | 21 | 5,962 |
| 2020 | 14 | 7,921 |
| 2021 | 17 | 6,941 |
| 2022 | 12 | 9,007 |
| 2024 | 11 | 9,505 |
| 2025 | 9 | 10,836 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 5 | 11,132 |
| 2000 | 5 | 11,954 |
| 2004 | 9 | 8,081 |
| 2005 | 5 | 13,163 |
| 2007 | 6 | 12,196 |
| 2008 | 5 | 14,377 |
| 2009 | 5 | 14,285 |
| 2010 | 7 | 10,637 |
| 2013 | 5 | 13,846 |
| 2015 | 5 | 13,836 |
| 2016 | 5 | 13,974 |
| 2018 | 6 | 11,981 |
| 2019 | 7 | 10,693 |
| 2022 | 9 | 8,909 |
| 2024 | 7 | 10,805 |

## People named Temple

- Temple Grandin, American doctor of animal science, author, and autism activist
- Temple Chevallier, British astronomer (1794–1873)
- William Temple Hornaday, American conservationist and zoologist (1854–1937)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.