Patience

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Latin virtue name

"ability to accept or tolerate inconveniences, and suffering without anxiety or anger"

Patience Origin and Meaning

The name Patience is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "ability to accept or tolerate inconveniences, and suffering without anxiety or anger".

Patience is a passive virtue turned engaging name, fresher than Hope, Faith, or even Charity. Its resemblance to the trendy Payton may be one reason that it returned to the US charts back in the 90's and 2000s, having been absent for a century.

Common in the seventeenth century, Patience is the eponymous heroine of a Gilbert & Sullivan comic operetta. In literature, Patience appears in Shakespeare's Henry VIII and in Anthony Trollope's novel, The Eustace Diamonds

In the 2004 film Catwoman, the non-superhero name of the protagonist, played by Halle Berry, is Patience Phillips--which may have caused the name's bump in popularity two years later. It remained in the charts until 2014, however, it has now declined.

Its disappearance might be down to parents finding Patience a little too much like Prudence, Chastity, or Temperance: names that could feel heavy to wear or live up to. Alternatively, it could have just been pushed out by a new wave of virtue options, such as True, Chosen, Felicity, and Sage.

Still, Patience would be an unexpected choice, and nickname Penny would be pretty sweet!

Patience Rank in US Top 1000

# 988 in the US

Popularity of the name Patience

• 988 US 2014
• 1596 Nameberry 2023
• 217 Unique 2023

20 Names Similar to Patience

These 20 names were selected by our users that were looking for other names like Patience.

• Buffy
• Mimi
• Charity
• Glinda
• Kitty
• Wanda
• Ginger
• Maryjane
• Easter
• Francois
• Pansy
• Mercy
• Fifi
• Barbie
• Jozsa
• Rita
• Valentine
• Norma
• Queenie
• Cat

Famous People Named Patience

• Patience Jane Wheatcroft Baroness Wheatcroft, English journalist and politician
• Patience Ann McIntyre American singer of duo Prudence & Patience, with sister Prudence Ann McIntyre
• Patience Marie Josephine Kama Dabany singer and former First Lady of Gabon
• Patience Cooper Indian silent film actress
• Patience Kemper American child actress
• Patience Hodgson lead singer of Australian band The Grates

The name Patience in Pop Culture

• "Patience " song by Take That
• "Patience " novel by Daniel Clowes
• Patience Buckner character in the movie "Cabin in the Woods"
• Patience character on TV's "Firefly"
• Remember Patience "Mem" Whipple character in the Dear America book series
• Patience Muffet English girl who may have inspired the nursery rhyme Little Miss Muffet
• Patience Phillips character in movie "Catwoman"
• "Patience " song by Guns N Roses
• "Patience; or Bunthorne's Bride," opera by Gilbert & Sullivan
• Patience "Patsy" Mount character on TV's "Call the Midwife"
• Patience Merlyn character from Daphne du Maurier's "Jamaica Inn"
• Patience Turner character in Supernatural and it's spin,off; Wayward Sisters

International Variations of the name Patience

• Paciencia Spanish
• Pazienza Italian