Patience is from the Latin patientia ("endurance, forbearance") — a Christian theological virtue. A characteristic Puritan virtue name introduced in 17th-century England and brought to colonial New England by the Pilgrims — alongside Charity, Mercy, Honor, Verity, and Constance. Patience Worth — the alleged "spirit" that the St. Louis housewife Pearl Curran said dictated novels and poems to her via Ouija board from 1913 to 1937, producing approximately 4,000 poems and 7 novels. Saint Patience of Cardiff — early Welsh Christian martyr.
Featured in countless 17th-century New England town records as one of the most popular Puritan feminine names.
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.
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.