Patience

Latin virtue name

Patience Origin and Meaning

The name Patience is a girl's name of Latin origin.

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 for its recent spike in popularity.

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 an Anthony Trollope novel.

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.

Patience Rank in US Top 1000

# 988 in the US

Patience Popularity

• 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.

• Mercy
• Charity
• Prudence
• Temperance
• Promise
• Constance
• Honor
• Hope
• Clarity
• Faith
• Clemency
• Comfort
• Harmony
• Verity
• Journey
• Peace
• Karma
• Modesty
• Amity
• Serenity

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

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