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Patience: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 172 in 2025. Its best rank was #578 in 2006.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #578 in 2006; #1,297 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Patience in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,297 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2006, at #578.
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Patience: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 172 girls in 2025. Peak: #578 in 2006 · most girls in one year: 508 (2006).
In 2025, 172 US girls were named Patience, making it the 1,297th most common girls’ name of the year, up 27 places from #1,324 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 174 girls named Patience in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #578, reached in 2006. That year also had the most girls given the name: 508. For comparison, it was #1,070 in 2015 and #2,410 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Patience in 141 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 7 babies. In all, 12,469 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,529 babies named Patience.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,043 US girls were named Patience; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 236. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,345 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Patience ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #510 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Paytience and Patiance are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Pat and Patty.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Paytience (93), Patiance (36).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 10 | #510 | #563 |
| Alabama | 8 | #621 | — |
| Georgia | 13 | #789 | #1,152 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #876 | #1,002 |
| Missouri | 6 | #900 | #666 |
| Indiana | 6 | #1,006 | #1,051 |
| Florida | 14 | #1,100 | #896 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,146 | — |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,182 | #1,236 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,207 | #1,258 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,246 | #1,066 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,399 | #1,251 |
| Texas | 14 | #1,692 | #1,348 |
| California | 8 | #2,439 | #2,010 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 172 | #1,297 | — | — |
| 2024 | 174 | #1,324 | — | — |
| 2023 | 198 | #1,207 | 6 | #11,895 |
| 2022 | 203 | #1,189 | 7 | #10,583 |
| 2021 | 231 | #1,084 | 6 | #11,783 |
| 2020 | 229 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 2019 | 236 | #1,071 | — | — |
| 2018 | 213 | #1,147 | 8 | #9,443 |
| 2017 | 181 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 2016 | 206 | #1,206 | — | — |
| 2015 | 246 | #1,070 | — | — |
| 2014 | 273 | #978 | 5 | #13,525 |
| 2013 | 291 | #887 | — | — |
| 2012 | 316 | #845 | — | — |
| 2011 | 315 | #839 | — | — |
| 2010 | 341 | #803 | 6 | #11,815 |
| 2009 | 383 | #746 | — | — |
| 2008 | 384 | #765 | 6 | #12,187 |
| 2007 | 454 | #653 | — | — |
| 2006 | 508 | #578 | — | — |
| 2005 | 472 | #604 | — | — |
| 2004 | 293 | #842 | — | — |
| 2003 | 277 | #868 | — | — |
| 2002 | 264 | #869 | — | — |
| 2001 | 242 | #924 | — | — |
| 2000 | 246 | #894 | — | — |
| 1999 | 230 | #920 | — | — |
| 1998 | 252 | #849 | — | — |
| 1997 | 225 | #898 | — | — |
| 1996 | 255 | #806 | — | — |
| 1995 | 209 | #907 | — | — |
| 1994 | 202 | #933 | — | — |
| 1993 | 163 | #1,108 | — | — |
| 1992 | 176 | #1,049 | — | — |
| 1991 | 158 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 1990 | 170 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 1989 | 113 | #1,365 | — | — |
| 1988 | 66 | #1,885 | — | — |
| 1987 | 65 | #1,806 | — | — |
| 1986 | 75 | #1,598 | — | — |
| 1985 | 63 | #1,799 | — | — |
| 1984 | 64 | #1,722 | — | — |
| 1983 | 70 | #1,600 | — | — |
| 1982 | 61 | #1,801 | — | — |
| 1981 | 78 | #1,541 | — | — |
| 1980 | 104 | #1,257 | — | — |
| 1979 | 76 | #1,539 | — | — |
| 1978 | 102 | #1,227 | — | — |
| 1977 | 90 | #1,301 | — | — |
| 1976 | 79 | #1,367 | — | — |
| 1975 | 89 | #1,264 | — | — |
| 1974 | 77 | #1,362 | — | — |
| 1973 | 94 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 1972 | 54 | #1,664 | — | — |
| 1971 | 50 | #1,792 | — | — |
| 1970 | 39 | #2,107 | — | — |
| 1969 | 32 | #2,285 | — | — |
| 1968 | 33 | #2,115 | — | — |
| 1967 | 32 | #2,106 | — | — |
| 1966 | 45 | #1,691 | — | — |
| 1965 | 42 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 1964 | 39 | #1,912 | — | — |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,345 | — | — |
| 1962 | 35 | #1,979 | — | — |
| 1961 | 36 | #1,944 | — | — |
| 1960 | 39 | #1,828 | — | — |
| 1959 | 29 | #2,139 | — | — |
| 1958 | 30 | #2,059 | — | — |
| 1957 | 39 | #1,740 | — | — |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,040 | — | — |
| 1955 | 27 | #2,094 | — | — |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,936 | — | — |
| 1953 | 24 | #2,164 | — | — |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,892 | — | — |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,548 | — | — |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,410 | — | — |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,697 | — | — |
| 1948 | 16 | #2,571 | — | — |
| 1947 | 24 | #2,032 | — | — |
| 1946 | 22 | #2,009 | — | — |
| 1945 | 16 | #2,217 | — | — |
| 1944 | 19 | #2,012 | — | — |
| 1943 | 27 | #1,651 | — | — |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,963 | — | — |
| 1941 | 36 | #1,288 | — | — |
| 1940 | 21 | #1,780 | — | — |
| 1939 | 22 | #1,672 | — | — |
| 1938 | 27 | #1,470 | — | — |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,570 | — | — |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,933 | — | — |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,080 | — | — |
| 1934 | 16 | #2,069 | — | — |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,670 | — | — |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,213 | — | — |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,931 | — | — |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,268 | — | — |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,546 | — | — |
| 1928 | 18 | #2,078 | — | — |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,518 | — | — |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,329 | — | — |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,900 | — | — |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,982 | — | — |
| 1923 | 20 | #2,007 | — | — |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,261 | — | — |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,608 | — | — |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,151 | — | — |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,134 | — | — |
| 1918 | 19 | #2,014 | — | — |
| 1917 | 26 | #1,499 | — | — |
| 1916 | 17 | #2,008 | — | — |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,868 | — | — |
| 1914 | 18 | #1,592 | — | — |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,995 | — | — |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,143 | — | — |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,497 | — | — |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,724 | — | — |
| 1908 | 13 | #1,186 | — | — |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,687 | — | — |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,658 | — | — |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,454 | — | — |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,551 | — | — |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,979 | — | — |
| 1901 | 10 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 1900 | 10 | #1,296 | — | — |
| 1899 | 10 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,147 | — | — |
| 1896 | 11 | #1,033 | — | — |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,187 | — | — |
| 1894 | 11 | #987 | — | — |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,605 | — | — |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,412 | — | — |
| 1891 | 12 | #831 | — | — |
| 1890 | 9 | #992 | — | — |
| 1888 | 8 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 1887 | 8 | #927 | — | — |
| 1885 | 11 | #687 | — | — |
| 1884 | 7 | #909 | — | — |
| 1883 | 6 | #898 | — | — |
| 1882 | 6 | #879 | — | — |
| 1881 | 6 | #803 | — | — |
| 1880 | 7 | #726 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).