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I really like the name Patience. I'd far prefer to meet a Patience over a Faith, Hope or Charity. It's fresh and unexpected, yet sounds medieval or darkly Puritan. It's soft and makes me think of delicate, almost spidery lacework over a blood-red velvet, starched Jacobean ruffs and subdued lighting in long endless hallways. I especially love the "ience" ending, it is so delicately delicious. I enjoy the way it sounds. I think this dark, almost limbo-like imagery is why I love seing it paired with the dark, heavy wood furniture of names: Patience Margaret, Patience Cornelia, Patience Lydia, Patience Helena, etc.

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Plus, if a Patience disliked her name, she could concievably ask to be called Pat, Patsy or Patty, which is more socially common.