Patience

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Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Origin: English

Meaning

Patience is an English feminine given name referring to the virtue of patience. It was a name created by the Puritans in the 1600s. It has seen steady, though infrequent, usage in the United States throughout its history.

From Wikipedia

Patience first appears in the data in 1992 and has been recorded in 30 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 2006 with 41 babies (rank #653 that year). It was not in the 2024 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Patience

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Patience yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

508
Total babies (all years)
30
Years in the data
41
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Girls

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19927#2,062
19936#2,353
199514#1,287
199612#1,446
199710#1,646
199813#1,345
19997#2,158
20007#2,151
20018#1,980
20027#2,241
200315#1,276
200414#1,384
200532#762
200641#653
200720#1,184
200840#703
200940#711
201030#899
201122#1,138
201231#870
201337#755
201414#1,643
201511#1,937
201617#1,429
201712#1,891
20189#2,313
201911#1,995
20217#2,860
20228#2,507
20236#3,309