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Patience

Pronounced /ˈpeɪʃəns/

Rank in 2024
#1,328
Born in 2024
172
Peak year
2006 · #577
Origin
English

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 172 girls were named Patience, about 1 in every 9,379.
  • It peaked in 2006 with 508 babies, ranked #577.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 12,249 girls have been named Patience since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Patience per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

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    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
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    Gen X
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    Millennials
  6. 0.2
    Gen Z
  7. 0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 341 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Silent: 341 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Boomers: 511 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,038 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,988 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Gen Z: 5,202 babies, 0.18 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,677 babies, 0.13 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

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

  • A female given name from English.
Origin
English
Say it
/ˈpeɪʃəns/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Patience, CC BY-SA 4.0.