Girls' name · since 1880
Patience
12,425 babies named Patience in U.S. Social Security records since 1880, with the highest year being 2006. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #1,462 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #1,295 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 12,425
- born since 1880
- 2000s
- peak decade
Patience currently ranks #1295 among girls' names in America, with 12,425 babies recorded since 1880.
Patience has 12,425 recorded births among girls since 1880, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #1295 as of the latest data, more common than 93% of girls, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1880 to 2025.
- #1,462 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #1,295 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 12,425 born since 1880
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Patience ranks #1,462 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #1,295 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 12,425 born since 1880, peaking in the 2000s.
- #1,462 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #1,295 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 12,425
- born since 1880
- 2000s
- peak decade
Patience's 12,425 recorded births place it above 97.97% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
42 jurisdictions carry state-level records, led by Texas.
How Patience compares
12,425 Top 9% higher than 91% of 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Patience's all-time total is 33x the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Patience | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 12,425 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 508 | 21 | 19,840 |
Patience's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Patience splits its recorded history at 1955: 92% of all births land in the more recent half, 8% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1893 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2006 peak of 508 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Patience popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1880–2025
- Peak year (2006)
- 508
- Annual births at peak, across 146 years of records
Patience popularity over time - boys
44 total births recorded since 2008 (Patience as boys' name)
Patience by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (3,523 births, 28% of the file).
2000s was Patience's strongest decade.
3,523 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 28% of all-time use.
Patience births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1880s 59
1880s
59 births
- 1890s 82
1890s
82 births
- 1900s 75
1900s
75 births
- 1910s 144
1910s
144 births
- 1920s 163
1920s
163 births
- 1930s 171
1930s
171 births
- 1940s 216
1940s
216 births
- 1950s 258
1950s
258 births
- 1960s 360
1960s
360 births
- 1970s 750
1970s
750 births
- 1980s 759
1980s
759 births
- 1990s
1990s
2,040 births
- 2000s
2000s
3,523 births
- 2010s
2010s
2,618 births
- 2020s 1,207
2020s
1,207 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 3,523 births (28% of all-time use).
How Patience compares to similarly-sized names
Years in SSA records vs. share of all-time use concentrated in the single peak year, among 15 girls names closest to Patience's total volume
Patience by state
Where Patience concentrates geographically, total births since 1880
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 742 | 6.0% |
| #2 | California | | 584 | 4.7% |
| #3 | Ohio | | 542 | 4.4% |
| #4 | Florida | | 463 | 3.7% |
| #5 | Georgia | | 448 | 3.6% |
| #6 | North Carolina | | 446 | 3.6% |
| #7 | New York | | 392 | 3.2% |
| #8 | Pennsylvania | | 391 | 3.1% |
742 of 12,425 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 42 reporting states.
Patience appears in 42 states. Explore state details →
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What to do with Patience's data
- Patience's usage has stayed within range of its 2000s decade-level peak (3,523 total births) through the 2020s (1,207) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
- Texas records the most Patiences (742 births) -- see the full state breakdown if geography matters to your decision. Texas names
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span
Two nationwide peer axes for Patience: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2006)
Similar record span (~145 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1880–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Patience draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.