US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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NAMES LIKE PATIENCE

Same rise and fall as Patience, around the same years.

WHERE PATIENCE IS POPULAR · 2024

In 2024, Patience ranked highest in South Carolina (#975) and lowest in California (#3,123). 40 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.

TOP 1011–5051–200200+UNDER 5 BABIES

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Patience name popularity

Patience has been given to 12,469 babies in the United States since 1880.

It peaked in 2006, when 508 babies got the name, and its best rank was #1,079 in 2006.

In 2025, 172 babies were named Patience (#2,440 in the country), 66% below the peak. That is down 30% from 2015.

Almost every Patience is a girl.

An estimated 11K people named Patience are alive in the US today, with a median age of 21.

HOW IT WORKS

The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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