🔥Constance

English version of Latin Constantia
"steadfastness"

Constance Origin and Meaning

The name Constance is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "steadfastness".

Constance is one of the more subtle of the virtue baby names, but still has quite a prim and proper image. One impediment to its revival has been the decidedly dated nickname Connie, though modern parents might well opt for using the strong and dignified name in full.

One of William the Conqueror's daughters was named Constance, and in Shakespeare's King John, Constance is the devoted mother of King Arthur. Constance was widely used in the seventeenth century by Puritans: Constance Hopkins was a young passenger on the Mayflower.

The fictional Constance Billard School appears in TV's Gossip Girl, and Constance was the first name of the decidedly non-prim and proper Lady Chatterley.

Oscar Wilde's wife was Constance, and Mozart's spouse was the German form Constanze, nicknamed Stanzi.

Though Constance has been neglected here for a number of years, it's still ranks at Number 120 in France.

Trivia tidbit: Constance was the birth name of 1940's peekaboo-hairdo star Veronica Lake and also, not surprisingly, Connie Britton.

# 1000 in the US

Constance Rank in US Top 1000

# 362 on Nameberry

Constance Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Constance Popularity

Famous People Named Constance

  • Constance of Aragon
    Queen consort of Hungary and Germany; Holy Roman Empress
  • Constance of Austria
    Queen consort of Sigismund III Vasa of Poland
  • Constance of Hungary
    Queen consort of Ottokar I of Bohemia
  • Constance Zimmer
    American actress
  • Constance Marie (Lopez)
    American actress
  • Constance Jablonski
    French model
  • Constance Campbell Bennett
    American actress
  • Constance Fenimore Woolson
    American novelist
  • Constance Elaine Womack
    birth name of Connie Britton, American actress
  • Constance Mary Towers
    American actress and singer
  • Constance Edwina "Shelagh" Lewes
    English socialite
  • Constance June Meador
    birth name of Connie Smith, American country music singer
  • Constance Shulman
    American actress
  • Constance Mary Lloyd
    wife of British writer Oscar Wilde
  • Constance "Connie" Ray
    American actress
  • Constance Elaine "Connie" Trimmer Willis
    American novelist
  • Constance Ford
    American actress and model
  • Constance Stokes
    Australian painter
  • Constance Georgine Markievicz
    Irish politician, revolutionary nationalist and suffragette
  • Constance Mayfield Rourke
    American biographer and author
  • Constance Baker Motley
    American civil rights activist and judge
  • Constance Spry
    English educator, florist and author
  • (Constance) Francesca Hilton
    daughter of Zsa Zsa Gabor and Conrad Hilton
  • Constance Demby
    American artist
  • Constance Tianmin Wu
    American actress

Constance in Pop Culture

  • Constance "Connie" Blackwood
    character in Shirley Jackson's "We Have Always Lived in the Caslte"
  • Constance Courte
    character in video game "Ace Attorney"
  • Constance Carmell
    character on TV's "Party Down"
  • Constance Langdon
    character on TV's "American Horror Story"
  • Constance Contraire
    character in "The Mysterious Benedict Society" series by Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Constance "Connie" Kendall
    character in the "Adventures in Odyssey" audio series
  • Constance "Connie" Temple
    character in the "Gone" series by Michael Grant.
  • Constance Billard School
    all,girls school in the "Gossip Girl" series
  • Constance Hardbroom
    character on TV's "The Worst Witch"
  • Constance
    spirit of the house in movie "Monster House"
  • Constance
    badger character in Brian Jacques' "Redwall" series
  • Constance Michel
    character in "Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim"
  • Constance Bonancieux
    character in "The Three Musketeers," by Alexandre Dumas
  • Constance
    Princess of Navarre in Jean,Philippe Rameau's Opera, "La princesse de Navarre"
  • Constance Arkham
    wife of Amadeus Arkham in "Batman: Arkham Asylum" video game.
  • Constance Hatchaway
    the murderous bride from Disney's Haunted Mansion ride.
  • Constance "Connie" Tucker
    character on the TV series "Young Sheldon"
  • Constance von Nuvelle
    character in Fire Emblem Three Houses video game