Entry № 8022 · Latin origin

Patience Patience — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Forbearance (Puritan virtue name)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "forbearance (puritan virtue name)".

Patience is from the Latin patientia ("endurance, forbearance") — a Christian theological virtue.

Forbearance (Puritan virtue name) — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Patience
Transliteration
Patience
Pronunciation
/ ˈpeɪ.ʃəns /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Patience stands.

Patience does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Patiences before her.

Real people
Patience Worth
Alleged spirit-dictator of Pearl Curran.
1913 – 1937
In fiction
Patience
The Mayflower Compact.
1620

Names connected to Patience.

The number behind Patience.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Patience reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.