Girl · Latin, through French
Patience
Say it: PAY-shence
Meaning
The English word patience, from Latin patientia 'endurance, suffering'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A favourite Puritan virtue name in England and New England, still in light use.
Its wave through time
Most used in the 2000s
In the United States
- 11,453 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 2006, about 1 in 3,700 girls
- 222 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
Used by
The family of the name
| French | Patience |
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Where this comes from
- Puritan church and town records of England and New England
- Colonial records of the Americas
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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