Patience

Girl name

Patience has been given to 12,469 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It peaked in 2006.

Meaning & origin /ˈpeɪʃəns/

From patience, a virtue name first used by Puritans in the sixteenth century.

Origin: English

Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Total babies

12,469

Peak year

2006 (508 babies)

Rank in 2025

Below top 1000

First recorded

1880

10-year trend

▼ -30%

Gender split

100% girls / 0% boys

Same primary gender, peaked around the same years, and roughly as common as Patience.

12,453 babies since 1946

12,314 babies since 1991

12,277 babies since 1994

12,257 babies since 1947

12,698 babies since 1982

12,712 babies since 1934

12,168 babies since 1913

12,159 babies since 1959

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