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patience Name Meaning and History

English and Scottish: from Middle English, Old French patience (Latin patientia, a derivative of patiens ‘patient’), hence a nickname, given perhaps to a notably long-suffering individual or to someone who had represented this abstract virtue in a morality play. However, this was also a personal name for men and women and the surname may derive from this use.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of patience Families in the US in 1920
Number of patience families
 6-10
 3-5
 1-2
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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