Constance

What Constance means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Constance yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #369 vs #1,500 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Constance?

US: Steady: #1540 in 2015, #1500 now. England & Wales: Falling: down from #255 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1950, when 4,441 girls got the name (#85 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 11,319 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,183 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in TN (0.22 per 1,000 girls), WA (0.21 per 1,000 girls), IN (0.18 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Constance is #1500 in the US and #369 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Constance were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Konstance7 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Nicknames

• Connie

Listed on Wiktionary under “pet forms”.

If you like Constance

Girls

• Barbara#968“strange, foreign”^*
• Amy#257“beloved”^*
• Laura#379“laurel tree”^*
• Amanda#493“to love”^*
• Gloria#654“glory”^*
• Paula#853Editor’s note Up from #889 in 2015 to #853 in 2025 in the US

For a brother

• Lawrence#518Editor’s note Down from #499 in 2015 to #518 in 2025 in the US
• Paul#262“small”^*
• Martin#335“of or like Mars”^*
• Mark#244Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1960, with 58,727 babies; 1,416 in 2025
• Justin#233“just”^*
• Marcus#258Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1984, with 5,996 babies; 1,341 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Latin, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Constance’s. Rank is US 2025.