Patience Girl
How popular is Patience?
#1,295 girl name in 2025
172 baby girls were named Patience in the US in 2025, making it the 1295th most popular girl name.
Patience popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,295 for girls (▲ 22 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 172 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-30% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,068 in 2015, #1,078 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2006 (508 girls) |
| Highest rank | #577 in 2006 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 1% boys, 99% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Patience counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Patience family of names ranked #1,098 for girls in 2025 (#1,126 the year before), with 177 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Patience | 172 | 97% |
| Paytience | 5 | 3% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Patience is most popular
Babies named Patience per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Mississippi: 0.5 per 1,000 (25 girls)
- South Carolina: 0.5 per 1,000 (46 girls)
- Georgia: 0.3 per 1,000 (65 girls)
- Alabama: 0.3 per 1,000 (26 girls)
- Missouri: 0.3 per 1,000 (32 girls)
Patience by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 59 | #658 |
| 1890s | 82 | #796 |
| 1900s | 75 | #1,067 |
| 1910s | 144 | #1,421 |
| 1920s | 163 | #1,925 |
| 1930s | 171 | #1,437 |
| 1940s | 216 | #1,271 |
| 1950s | 258 | #1,727 |
| 1960s | 360 | #1,669 |
| 1970s | 750 | #1,160 |
| 1980s | 759 | #1,250 |
| 1990s | 2,040 | #805 |
| 2000s | 3,523 | #577 |
| 2010s | 2,618 | #803 |
| 2020s | 1,207 | #1,078 |
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Questions
- Is Patience a boy or girl name?
- Patience is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 99% of babies named Patience were girls.
- How popular is the name Patience?
- 172 baby girls were named Patience in the US in 2025, making it the 1295th most popular girl name.
- When was Patience most popular?
- Patience peaked in 2006, when 508 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #577 in 2006.
- How many people are named Patience?
- 12,469 babies have been named Patience in the US since 1880. We estimate about 11,518 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 21.
- Where is Patience most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Patience was most common in Mississippi, at 0.5 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.