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Patience
About Patience
The name Patience peaked for girls at #578 in 2006. The name is most popular in Hawaii, Mississippi, and Mississippi. Patience is occasionally used for boys in 2023.
Pronounced PAY-shuns.
As of October 2026, Patience ranked #1297 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #578 in 2006.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #983 | 272 | 152.3 |
| 2015 | #1,070 | 246 | 137.8 |
| 2016 | #1,206 | 206 | 116.3 |
| 2017 | #1,301 | 181 | 104.8 |
| 2018 | #1,147 | 213 | 125.2 |
| 2019 | #1,071 | 236 | 140.6 |
| 2020 | #1,080 | 229 | 141.7 |
| 2021 | #1,084 | 231 | 140.8 |
| 2022 | #1,186 | 203 | 123.8 |
| 2023 | #1,209 | 197 | 122.8 |
| 2024 | #1,330 | 172 | 106.2 |
| 2025 | #1,297 | 172 | 107 |
World rankings
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Famous Patiences
- Patience Jane Wheatcroft
Baroness Wheatcroft, English journalist and politician
- Patience Ann McIntyre
American singer of duo Prudence & Patience, with sister Prudence Ann McIntyre
- Patience Marie Josephine Kama Dabany
singer and former First Lady of Gabon
- Patience Cooper
Indian silent film actress
- Patience Kemper
American child actress
- Patience Hodgson
lead singer of Australian band The Grates
Patience in pop culture
- "Patience
" song by Take That
- "Patience
" novel by Daniel Clowes
- Patience Buckner
character in the movie "Cabin in the Woods"
- Patience
character on TV's "Firefly"
- Remember Patience "Mem" Whipple
character in the Dear America book series
- Patience Muffet
English girl who may have inspired the nursery rhyme Little Miss Muffet
- Patience Phillips
character in movie "Catwoman"
- "Patience
" song by Guns N Roses
- "Patience; or
Bunthorne's Bride," opera by Gilbert & Sullivan
- Patience "Patsy" Mount
character on TV's "Call the Midwife"
- Patience Merlyn
character from Daphne du Maurier's "Jamaica Inn"
- Patience Turner
character in Supernatural and it's spin,off; Wayward Sisters
Variations & nicknames
- PacienciaSpanish
- PazienzaItalian