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Patience

Girl English #1209 in 2023

Patience is a girl name of English origin.

Meaning of Patience

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

Popularity of Patience

Popularity, 1880–2023

203 births in 2023

1880 2023

12,077 U.S. births recorded from 1880–2023. Used for both boys and girls — see notes below.

Peak year

2006

508 babies

First recorded

1880

Earliest SSA data

Recent trend

Steady

Last 5 yrs vs. prior 5

Similar names

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Girl · English

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Girl · English

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Girl · English

Wished-for child; desired

About this page

Popularity counts come from the U.S. Social Security Administration's national dataset. Etymology adapted from Wiktionary under CC BY-SA 4.0. If you spot an error, please let us know.