About the name Temperance
Temperance belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Temperance first appears in Social Security records in 1916. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #836 in 2012, and in 2024 90 babies received the name — 3,610 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.