Paytience
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 6 babies a year in the US.
Paytience by the numbers
Paytience was given to 6 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 12 babies in 2010, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Paytience
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Paytience. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Patiencethe virtue of patience, forbearance177 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Paytience
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