Patience
Patience is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 172 births. Its best rank was 578th, in 2006.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1720.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2006508 births
- Best rank
- #578in 2006
- Since 1880
- 12,249people given the name
The story in the numbers
12,249 girls have been named Patience in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2006, with 508 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2004, and the 2000s alone account for 29%. It has spent 31 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Patience | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 59 | |
| 1890s | 82 | |
| 1900s | 75 | |
| 1910s | 144 | |
| 1920s | 163 | |
| 1930s | 171 | |
| 1940s | 216 | |
| 1950s | 258 | |
| 1960s | 360 | |
| 1970s | 750 | |
| 1980s | 759 | |
| 1990s | 2,040 | |
| 2000s | 3,523 | |
| 2010s | 2,617 | |
| 2020s | 1,032 |
In 2006, its biggest year
Patience was the 578th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2006 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Isabella and Ava. See all of 2006.
Names that rose and fell with Patience
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Laniepeak 2006
- Gisellapeak 2009
- Meliapeak 2006
- Shylapeak 2008
- Marlypeak 2008
- Nathaliepeak 2009
- Melinapeak 2009
- Kamariapeak 2008
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.