Patience — #1326 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Patience

The Social Security Administration has registered 12,249 babies named Patience between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Patience currently holds the #1326 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 508 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Patience performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 3,523 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Patience shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 728 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Patience in 42 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Patience in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 12,249 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.