Constance
Constance is a girl's name that peaked in 1950, when it was the 85th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,500th. About 80,000 Constances are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 70.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Constance boys named Constance
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 140,394
- Estimated living today
- 80,000
- Median age today
- 70
- Peak year
- 1950
- Best rank
- 85th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,500th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 139,975 / 419
How old the living Constances are
born that year still alive today
Of the 140,394 babies given the name since 1880, about 80,000 are alive — 57 in every hundred. Roughly 2,500 of them are children and 51,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1955 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Constances
- Constance Markievicz (1868–1927)Irish politician, first woman elected to the Westminster House of Commons and the Dáil Éireann, and first female Cabinet member in Europe
- Constance of León (1136–1160)Queen of the Franks from 1154 to 1160
- Constance Wu (born 1982)American actress
- Constance of Sicily (1248–1302)Queen of Aragon and titular Queen of Sicily
- Constance of Austria (1588–1631)Queen consort of Poland and Sweden
- Constance of Aragon (1179–1222)Queen Consort of Hungary and Holy Roman Empress Consort
- Constance of ArlesFrankish Queen
- Constance of Antioch (1127–1163)Princess of Antioch
People named Constance with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Constance is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Constance is most concentrated in Maine (3.7×), Rhode Island (2.7×), New Hampshire (2.5×), the District of Columbia (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1950
The most popular girls’ names the year Constance peaked:
Constance elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Constance | 29,165 | 90th |
| England and Wales girls | Constance | 4,246 | 244th |
| Belgium girls | Constance | 724 | 285th |
| Scotland girls | Constance | 250 | 356th |
| Switzerland girls | Constance | 169 | 473rd |
| Ireland girls | Constance | 92 | 532nd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Constance | 26 | 273rd |
| Poland girls | Constance | 12 birth registrations | 599th |
| France boys | Constance | 10 | 863rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Constance: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Constance | 27 | 0.002% | 865th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Constance | 142 | 0.033% | 152nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Constance is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.04% of children were given it – 45 of them.
Constance: rank by region
In 2025, Constance was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Constance | 149 | 17 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Constance appears in the lists for Province of Liège (98th) and Province of Hainaut (187th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Constance among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Constance | 1,723 | 4,705 |
| Finland girls | Constance | 6 | 80 |
| the Netherlands boys | Constance | — | 68 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Constance against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.