🔥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.

Constance Rank in US Top 1000

# 1000 in the US

Constance Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 362 on Nameberry

Constance Popularity

• 362 Nameberry 2024
• 653 Unique 2023
• 371 England 2021
• 88 France 2023

20 Names Similar to Constance

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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