girls:
12.1k births since 1880
#1429 (75th percentile)
boys:
44 births since 2008
#4542 (1st percentile)
overall:
12.1k births since 1880
#2388 (69th percentile)
The name Patience is the #2,388 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 12,116 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 69.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 69.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,429 (75.0% percentile) for all time with 12,072 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,542 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 44 births since 2008.
Patience has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 2008 for boys). Birth data for Patience is available in 139 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (139 years for girls and 7 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Patience has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Patience reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 46.6% percentile (ranked #516) with 243 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 243 births per million (ranked 46.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Patience ranks #757 for girls (20.1% percentile) with 111 births per million, which is 45.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Patience reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #910) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Patience ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 79.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Patience".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Patience. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Patience is pronounced as PAY-shuhns, which has 2 syllables.
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