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Constance
Say it: KON-stunss
Meaning
From Latin constantia 'steadfastness, constancy'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Brought by the Normans; Chaucer's Man of Law tells the tale of Custance.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1950s
In the United States
- 139,753 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1950, about 1 in 386 girls
- 130 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Custance, Constantia
| Latin | Constantia |
|---|---|
| French | Constance |
| Italian | Costanza |
| Spanish | Constanza |
| German | Konstanze |
Famous bearers
- Constance, Duchess of Brittany
- Constance of Castile, wife of John of Gaunt
- Constance of Arles, queen of France
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- Royal and noble genealogies
- Medieval European charters and records
- Well-known works of literature
- Puritan church and town records of England and New England
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.