Patience

Patience: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning: “endurance”
Origin: English
Say it: PAY-shəns · 2 syllables
Used for: Girls

Patience is an English virtue name from the word patience, ultimately from Latin patientia. It was used by English Puritans along with other moral virtue names.

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How popular is Patience?

202452.0 per million US babies

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Babies named Patience in 2024172

2024 rank#1,326 girls

Peak year2006

Total US babies since 188012,293

Patience has been fairly stable over the last fifteen years.

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Patience questions

What does the name Patience mean?

Patience means "endurance". It comes from English. Patience is an English virtue name from the word patience, ultimately from Latin patientia. It was used by English Puritans along with other moral virtue names.

Is Patience a boy or girl name?

Patience is mainly a girl's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Patience?

172 US babies were named Patience in 2024. Its peak year was 2006.

How do you pronounce Patience?

Patience is usually pronounced PAY-shəns.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.