Constance is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Constance is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,508 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,507 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 131,823 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Constance. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Constance is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Constance for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Constance is therefore one of only 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Constance is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed 81 Constance easily made it into the Top 100 of our SmartGenius stats for female first names and has never been more popular than back in 1949.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Constance was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 120 babies were named Constance in the USA in 2022, ranking it #1,558 on the list of the most popular girls' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 2013, when it was only ranked at #1,770 of all female names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 104 girls were named Constance.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Constance is one of them. However, Constance is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Maine seem to particularly fancy this name – the 2,195 women called Constance who live here are 0,323% of all female residents and push their name up to #90, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in Maine.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With nine letters, the name Constance is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Constance and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Constance, you can simply say:
Cat
Orange
Nut
Sun
Tiger
Apple
Nut
Cat
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Constance
Constance
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
O
N
S
T
A
N
C
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
O
N
S
T
A
N
C
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Constance sounds like this:
