Patience

Where Patience comes from

From patience, a virtue name first used by Puritans in the sixteenth century.
— Wiktionary's entry for Patience
  • English
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #679 among girls — 7 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1944
    Patience Dabany born
    Gabonese musician
  3. 1958
    Patience Ozokwor born
    Nigerian actress
  4. 2006
    Peak, #577
    508 babies named Patience — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2015
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,068.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English.
Namesakes
  • Patience Ozokwor · Nigerian actress, born 1958
  • Patience Dabany · Gabonese musician, born 1944
  • Patience Cooper · Indian actress, 1905–1983
  • Patience Jonathan · former First Lady of Nigeria and permanent secretary in Bayelsa, born 1957
  • Patience Okon George · Nigerian sprinter, born 1991

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.