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How popular is “Patience” in the USA?

Number of people named “Patience” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Patience” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Patience” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Patience” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Patience” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Patience” by birth year

This chart shows how “Patience” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 7 0.000034742 7 100%
1881 6 0.000031138 6 100%
1882 6 0.000027084 6 100%
1883 6 0.000027657 6 100%
1884 7 0.000028752 7 100%
1885 11 0.000045671 11 100%
1887 8 0.000032337 8 100%
1888 8 0.000026714 8 100%
1890 9 0.000029861 9 100%
1891 12 0.00004186 12 100%
1892 6 0.000017944 6 100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 100%
1894 11 0.000032478 11 100%
1895 9 0.00002564 9 100%
1896 11 0.000030771 11 100%
1897 9 0.00002594 9 100%
1899 10 0.000029478 10 100%
1900 10 0.000022209 10 100%
1901 10 0.000028917 10 100%
1902 5 0.000012929 5 100%
1903 7 0.000018363 7 100%
1904 8 0.000019827 8 100%
1905 7 0.000016512 7 100%
1906 7 0.000016338 7 100%
1908 13 0.000026604 13 100%
1909 8 0.000015649 8 100%
1910 11 0.000018622 11 100%
1911 7 0.000010865 7 100%
1913 11 0.000009674 11 100%
1914 18 0.000012709 18 100%
1915 18 0.000009823 18 100%
1916 17 0.000008788 17 100%
1917 26 0.000012956 26 100%
1918 19 0.000008751 19 100%
1919 17 0.000008056 17 100%
1920 18 0.000007955 18 100%
1921 14 0.000005997 14 100%
1922 17 0.000007426 17 100%
1923 20 0.000008686 20 100%
1924 21 0.000008818 21 100%
1925 12 0.000005143 12 100%
1926 16 0.000006969 16 100%
1927 14 0.000006036 14 100%
1928 18 0.000007961 18 100%
1929 13 0.00000593 13 100%
1930 9 0.000004048 9 100%
1931 18 0.000008554 18 100%
1932 15 0.000007105 15 100%
1933 7 0.000003501 7 100%
1934 16 0.000007704 16 100%
1935 16 0.000007656 16 100%
1936 17 0.000008183 17 100%
1937 24 0.000011264 24 100%
1938 27 0.000012203 27 100%
1939 22 0.000009984 22 100%
1940 21 0.00000912 21 100%
1941 36 0.000014776 36 100%
1942 20 0.000007321 20 100%
1943 27 0.000009566 27 100%
1944 19 0.000007063 19 100%
1945 16 0.000006031 16 100%
1946 22 0.000006885 22 100%
1947 24 0.000006662 24 100%
1948 16 0.000004634 16 100%
1949 15 0.000004304 15 100%
1950 18 0.000005138 18 100%
1951 17 0.000004615 17 100%
1952 15 0.000003949 15 100%
1953 24 0.000006228 24 100%
1954 30 0.000007536 30 100%
1955 27 0.000006725 27 100%
1956 29 0.000007034 29 100%
1957 39 0.000009281 39 100%
1958 30 0.000007257 30 100%
1959 29 0.000006975 29 100%
1960 39 0.000009389 39 100%
1961 36 0.000008691 36 100%
1962 35 0.000008673 35 100%
1963 27 0.000006821 27 100%
1964 39 0.000010032 39 100%
1965 42 0.000011585 42 100%
1966 45 0.000012947 45 100%
1967 32 0.000009426 32 100%
1968 33 0.000009768 33 100%
1969 32 0.000009208 32 100%
1970 39 0.000010814 39 100%
1971 50 0.000014567 50 100%
1972 54 0.000017181 54 100%
1973 94 0.000031158 94 100%
1974 77 0.000025329 77 100%
1975 89 0.000029476 89 100%
1976 79 0.000026036 79 100%
1977 90 0.000028333 90 100%
1978 102 0.000032137 102 100%
1979 76 0.000022843 76 100%
1980 104 0.000030193 104 100%
1981 78 0.000022547 78 100%
1982 61 0.000017389 61 100%
1983 70 0.000020212 70 100%
1984 64 0.000018345 64 100%
1985 63 0.000017651 63 100%
1986 75 0.000021085 75 100%
1987 65 0.000018027 65 100%
1988 66 0.000017862 66 100%
1989 113 0.000029393 113 100%
1990 170 0.000043011 170 100%
1991 158 0.000040562 158 100%
1992 176 0.000045818 176 100%
1993 163 0.000043233 163 100%
1994 202 0.000054335 202 100%
1995 209 0.00005707 209 100%
1996 255 0.000069917 255 100%
1997 225 0.000062056 225 100%
1998 252 0.000068512 252 100%
1999 230 0.000062265 230 100%
2000 246 0.000065081 246 100%
2001 242 0.000064647 242 100%
2002 264 0.000070621 264 100%
2003 277 0.00007285 277 100%
2004 293 0.000076683 293 100%
2005 472 0.000122762 472 100%
2006 508 0.000128406 508 100%
2007 454 0.000113566 454 100%
2008 390 0.00009922 384 6 97%
2009 383 0.000100257 383 100%
2010 347 0.000093892 341 6 97%
2011 315 0.000086118 315 100%
2012 316 0.000086401 316 100%
2013 291 0.000079821 291 100%
2014 277 0.000074736 272 5 96%
2015 246 0.00006647 246 100%
2016 206 0.000056151 206 100%
2017 181 0.000050612 181 100%
2018 221 0.000062857 213 8 93%
2019 236 0.000067993 236 100%
2020 229 0.000068551 229 100%
2021 237 0.000069954 231 6 95%
2022 210 0.000062073 203 7 93%
2023 203 0.000061307 197 6 94%
2024 172 0.000051675 172 100%

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