Tempest is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Tempest in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Tempest in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Tempest by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Tempest ranks at #5,583. That means there are 5,582 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Tempest.
In fact, the name Tempest hardly fits the trend of first names for girls. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Tempest wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1990, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 1,469, 98 parents chose it in 1990 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Tempest, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Tempest was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Tempest a few times. Among all newborn girls, it ranked 7,858, for a total of 11 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Tempest seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Tempest are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Tempest is registered in 12 states, among which are Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia or Illinois. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Tempest live in Florida, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 204,593 would turn around if you called the name Tempest across Florida.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. Because: 6.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.
With seven letters, the name Tempest has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 6.3% of all girls' names that begin with a T, this first letter is thus much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the girls’ names starting with T is Teresa.
If your name is Tempest and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Tempest, you can simply say:
Tiger
Elephant
Mouse
Pig
Elephant
Sun
Tiger
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Tempest
Tempest
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
E
M
P
E
S
T
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
T
E
M
P
E
S
T
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Tempest sounds like this:
