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How popular is the name Patience?
Births per year, rank history and how many Patiences are alive today.
Patience (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 3705th in 2025 and given to 6 babies. The name peaked in 2006, when 31 babies were given the name, the 928th most popular that year. It has declined since 2006; the 2025 figure is roughly 19% of its peak.
The Patience you are most likely to meet is around 19 years old. Half of all Patiences born in England and Wales are between 13 and 23, and there are at least 430 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Patience - on average, only one in every 733 such rooms contains a Patience.
How many babies are named Patience each year?
Where does Patience rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Patience most popular?
Patience peaked in 2006, when 31 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Patience?
At least 430 people named Patience born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Patience?
Most living Patiences are between 13 and 23; the most common age is about 19.
Is Patience becoming more or less popular?
Well past its peak: today's figures are a fraction of the 2006 peak, though numbers have levelled off in recent years.