Connie vs Constance
American parents have registered 273,740 Connies since 1880, against 140,394 Constances. But in 2025 it was Constance that was commoner, 142 babies to 53.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Connie Constance
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Constance for 86 years and Connie for 60 years. The lead changed hands 15 times.
- 1882–1935 Constance ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1938–1981 Connie ahead
- 1986–1988 Constance ahead
- 1989–1996 Connie ahead
- 2002–2025 Constance ahead
10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Connie | Constance | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 273,740 | 140,394 |
| Most in one year | 10,112 | 4,451 |
| Babies in 2025 | 53 | 142 |
| Estimated living today | 198,000 | 80,000 |
| Median age today | 67 | 70 |
| Peak year | 1955 | 1950 |
| Best rank | 35th girls | 85th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 3,067th | 1,500th |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 266,783 / 6,957 | 139,975 / 419 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Constances alive today are over 70; half the Connies are over 67. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Connie West Virginia (2.4×), Iowa (2.4×), Wyoming (2.3×)
- Constance Maine (3.7×), Rhode Island (2.7×), New Hampshire (2.5×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Connie | Constance |
|---|---|---|
| France | 95 | 29,175 |
| England and Wales | 8,729 | 4,246 |
| Scotland | 1,036 | 250 |
| Northern Ireland | 588 | 26 |
| Ireland | 322 | 92 |
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
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Related comparisons
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Connie and Constance.