Patience

Patience is an English feminine given name referring to the virtue of patience. It was a name created by the Puritans in the 1600s. It has seen steady, though infrequent, usage in the United States throughout its history. The name has ranked among the top 1,000 names given to newborn girls in the United States since 1994, when it returned to the top 1,000 for the first time since 1894. In 2011, it was the 843rd most popular name given to newborn American girls.

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C. 1200, "quality of being willing to bear adversities, calm endurance of misfortune, suffering, etc.," from Old French pacience "patience; sufferance, permission" (12c.) and directly from Latin patientia "patience, endurance, submission," also "indulgence, leniency; humility; submissiveness; submission to lust;" literally "quality of suffering." It is an abstract noun formed from the adjective patientem (nominative patiens) "bearing, supporting; suffering, enduring, permitting; tolerant," but also "firm, unyielding, hard," used of persons as well as of navigable rivers, present participle of pati "to endure, undergo, experience," which is of uncertain origin. Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. [Ambrose Bierce, "Devil's Dictionary," 1911]Meaning "constancy in effort" is attested from 1510s. Meaning "card game for one person" is from 1816.

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From the English word patience, ultimately from Latin patientia, a derivative of pati: to suffer.

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Patience Ozokwor	1958	Nigerian actress
2	Patience Jonathan	1957	First Lady of Nigeria and permanent secretary in Bayelsa
3	Patience Worth	1883	American writer
4	Patience Dabany	1944	Gabonese musician
5	Patience Wright	1725	Sculptor
6	Patience Wheatcroft, Baroness Wheatcroft	1951	British newspaper editor
7	Patience Cleveland	1931	American actress
8	Patience Cooper	1905	Indian actress
9	Patience Agbabi	1965	British poet
10	Patience Collier	1910	British actress
11	Patience Strong	1907	British poet
12	Patience D. Roggensack	1940	American politician
13	Luke Patience	1986	Scottish Sailor
14	Alana Patience	1980	Australian ballroom dancer
15	Patience Gray	1917	British chef
16	Patience Latting	1918	American politician
17	Olivier Patience	1980	French tennis player
18	Patience Okon George	1991	Nigerian sprinter
19	John Patience	1949	Author and illustrator
20	Patience Abbe	1924	Author
21	Patience Ward	1629	Lord Mayor of London
22	Patience Sherman	1946	America swimmer, Olympic athlete
23	Sally Patience		Australian actress
24	Patience Avre	1976
25	Patience Mthunzi		Laser scientist
26	Patience Sonko-Godwin	1943	Gambian historian
27	Patience Hawker	1900
28	Patience Kpobi	1984	Ghanaian association football player
29	Patience Oghre Imobhio
30	Patience Sackey	1975
31	Patience Lawal	1983
32	Patience Opuene