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Patience

The name Patience peaked for boys at #9440 in 2018. Patience is occasionally used for girls in 2025.

The name Patience is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "ability to accept or tolerate inconveniences, and suffering without anxiety or anger".

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Patience is a passive virtue turned engaging name, fresher than Hope, Faith, or even Charity. Its resemblance to the trendy Payton may be one reason that it returned to the US charts back in the 90's and 2000s, having been absent for a century.
 Common in the seventeenth century, Patience is the eponymous heroine of a Gilbert & Sullivan comic operetta. In literature, Patience appears in Shakespeare's Henry VIII and in Anthony Trollope's novel, The Eustace Diamonds
 In the 2004 film Catwoman, the non-superhero name of the protagonist, played by Halle Berry, is Patience Phillips--which may have caused the name's bump in popularity two years later. It remained in the charts until 2014, however, it has now declined. 
 
Its disappearance might be down to parents finding Patience a little too much like Prudence, Chastity, or Temperance: names that could feel heavy to wear or live up to. Alternatively, it could have just been pushed out by a new wave of virtue options, such as True, Chosen, Felicity, and Sage.
 
Still, Patience would be an unexpected choice, and nickname Penny would be pretty sweet!

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The name Patience is currently ranked #988 in U.S. births. and peaked for girls at #578 in 2006. It is currently rising in popularity. The name is most popular in PATIENCE, PATIENCE, and PATIENCE. Patience is occasionally used for boys in 2023.

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