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Consuelo
Say it: kon-SWEH-loh
Meaning
Spanish 'consolation', from Nuestra Señora del Consuelo.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Common in Spain in the 19th and early 20th centuries and now found mostly among older women.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1920s
In the United States
- 16,966 babies given this name since 1890
- At its height in 1928, about 1 in 3,000 girls
- 18 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Chelo
| Catalan | Consol |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | Consolação |
| Italian | Consolata |
Famous bearers
- Consuelo Vanderbilt, American heiress
- Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican composer of 'Bésame mucho'
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- Calendars of saints and name days
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- Parish baptism registers
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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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.