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Patience

Girl's name · #1297 in the US (2025) · 2000s wave

Popularity over time

Patience reached #578 in 2006 and has eased to #1297 since. About 12,000 girls have carried it since 1880.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 19 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#3,044 in Canada (2025) · #3,705 in England & Wales (2025) · #6,834 in France (2021) · #3,478 in Austria (2017) · #368 in New Zealand (2010) · #5,805 in Ecuador (1991).

Famous Patiences

• Patience Ozokwor — Nigerian actress (born 1958)
• Patience Jonathan — First Lady of Nigeria (2010–2015) (born 1957)
• Patience Dabany — Gabonese singer and musician (born 1944 or 1937)
• Patience Cooper — Indian actress (1905–1993)
• Patience Cleveland — American actress (1931–2004)

In stories & tradition

• Patience Jackson — Abyssinia (musical stage work)

What Patiences become

Among 97 notable people named Patience:

Sports figures appear 1.89× more often than among typical names — e.g. Patience Okon George, Nigerian sprinter (born 1991).

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