girls:
139.7k births since 1880
#285 (95th percentile)
boys:
419 births since 1915
#4167 (9th percentile)
overall:
140.1k births since 1880
#534 (93rd percentile)
The name Constance is the #534 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 140,128 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 93.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #285 (95.0% percentile) for all time with 139,709 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,167 (9.1% percentile) for all time with 419 births since 1915.
Constance has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1915 for boys).
The name Constance has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Constance reached its peak popularity in 1949, achieving the 88.1% percentile (ranked #82) with 2,465 births per million. The name was most common in 1950, with 2,525 births per million (ranked 87.5% percentile). Despite a low point in 2017, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Constance ranks #827 for girls (12.7% percentile) with 71 births per million, which is 2.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Constance reached its peak popularity in 1932, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #519) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1932, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Constance".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Constance. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Constance is pronounced as KAHN-stuhns, which has 2 syllables.
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