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I totally love this name; it's actually a combo in my profile is Tempest Jade.

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Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom!!!

The idea of using this word as a name goes all the way back to the mid-19th century, when Mary Jane Holmes published a best-selling novel called Tempest and Sunshine. The book was about two sisters, whose real names were Julia and Fanny, but who were always called Tempest and Sunshine by their father in reference to their contrasting dispositions. A lot of people think of these as "hippy" names, but there are examples of both back in the 19th century because of that book.

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I like Tempest(prefer Temperance), I like Tempest Ally.

No child wants to be named "temper tantrum"

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Yes, thunderstorms are wonderful, but that's *not* what most people will think of when they hear the word. It's an emotive word that implies instability, volatility, fierceness, overwroughtness.

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It's hard enough being a child or teen in this day and age without having 'label' names. Tempest would be as trying and burdensome a name as Patience or Silence imo.

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♦ Chrisell ♦

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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.

Tempest is cute, and a guilty pleasure of mine. Tempest Katherine is nice.

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In the book Freakonomics, there is a case where a girl was brought to court for, among other things, having men into the apartment while her mother was at work. I don't remember how old she was, but I think she was just a teenager, maybe 15 or so. Anyway, her name was Temptress, and someone at the court asked her mother why on earth she had named her daughter that. The woman replied that she'd seen the name of the woman on the Cosby Show (Tempestt Bledsoe, I believe) and liked it. She didn't find out until later that she had misspelled it, and even later than that did she find out what "temptress" means.

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Just something I thought I'd point out. I think the name Tempest itself is way too impersonal and wouldn't make me like the person very much.

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Stormy's sister

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Literally, I know a sibset where one girl is named Stormy MN (don't remember) and the other one is Carly Tempest. I think both are tacky. This may be due to my association with said sibset (the mother is unstable, for lack of a better word).

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What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections of the soul?
Man is a depth still greater than the people.

I like it, but it reminds me too strongly of "temptress." I personally wouldn't use it. Of your combos, I like Tempest Katherine and Tempest Laura.

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Suggestions from the top of my head:
Tempest Marina (may be too wordy though)
Tempest Adela
Tempest Suzanne
Tempest Margot
Tempest Aurora

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Hannah

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"A man can convince anyone he's somebody else, but never himself."

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~The Usual Suspects.

Tempest is fabulous! I really like Tempest Katherine, and I absolutely adore Tempest Christine!

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Others:

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Tempest Louise
Tempest Jane
Tempest Charlotte
Tempest Gabrielle
Tempest Rosemary
Tempest Liliana
Tempest Eve
Tempest Fleur
Tempest Anastasia
Tempest Noor
Tempest Lark
Tempest Nola
Tempest Juliane
Tempest Clara
Tempest Isidora

NMSAA - i prefer Thunder or Storm itself. I love Storm on boy only, Thunder I love for both.

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~* In Memory of*~: Elizabeth.

No.

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I met a Tempest recently, and all I could think of was how her name did not suit her at all. That's why I tend to be against names like Tempest - because the name can end up looking really silly if the person is the opposite.

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