Entry № 10453 · Latin origin

Temperance Temperance — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TEM-per-ens /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Moderation (Puritan virtue; Temperance Brennan of Bones)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "moderation (puritan virtue; temperance brennan of bones)".

Temperance is from the Latin temperantia ("moderation, self-control") — one of the four classical cardinal virtues. A Puritan virtue name brought to colonial America by the Pilgrims; Temperance Wilkinson was among the early settlers of Plymouth Colony in 1620. Frances Willard's Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was the largest American women's organization of the 19th century.

Moderation (Puritan virtue; Temperance Brennan of Bones) — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Temperance
Transliteration
Temperance
Pronunciation
/ ˈtɛm.pər.əns /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Temperance stands.

Temperance does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Temperances before her.

Real people
Frances Willard
Founder of the WCTU.
1839 – 1898
In fiction
Temperance Brennan
Bones.
2005

Names connected to Temperance.

The number behind Temperance.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Temperance reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.