HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Patience

A human name, held in the Social Security file. It is not in the Administration’s index of agent names, and it has no classification.

Table 1. Patience, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	1,297
2025 number	172
Peak year	2006
Peak rank	578
Years present	141 of 146
Dog licences, New York	18
Pet licences, Seattle	1

Statement of record

Patience was given to 172 girls in 2025, ranking 1,297th for the year. It peaked in 2006, when it ranked 578th and went to 508 babies. It has appeared in 141 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 217 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Patience

Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2025.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

Villain probability

62%

Basis: phonetics. One bilabial stop, two sibilants, ends on a consonant. The canon has no entry, so this is the sound of the name and nothing else.

Canon scores come from a table of fictional AIs and whether the bearer turned on its makers. Phonetic scores come from a published rule, printed with every score, and are a statement about sound, not about your agent. How the sound is scored.

As recorded on the Social Security card application. Names given to fewer than five babies of a sex in a year are not published, so the file is a floor.