Constance
Constance is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 125 births. Its best rank was 83rd, in 1949.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1250.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19504,441 births
- Best rank
- #83in 1949
- Since 1880
- 139,832people given the name
The story in the numbers
139,832 girls have been named Constance in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1950, with 4,441 births — 0.26% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 125 births in 2024, against 4,441 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1948, and the 1950s alone account for 24%. It has spent 120 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 9 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Constance | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 290 | |
| 1890s | 706 | |
| 1900s | 1,538 | |
| 1910s | 6,425 | |
| 1920s | 15,570 | |
| 1930s | 19,896 | |
| 1940s | 29,912 | |
| 1950s | 33,528 | |
| 1960s | 14,659 | |
| 1970s | 4,843 | |
| 1980s | 5,735 | |
| 1990s | 2,893 | |
| 2000s | 1,868 | |
| 2010s | 1,354 | |
| 2020s | 615 |
In 1950, its biggest year
Constance was the 85th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1950 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Barbara and Susan. See all of 1950.
Names that rose and fell with Constance
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Erlindapeak 1949
- Ilenepeak 1950
- Robertapeak 1953
- Phylisspeak 1951
- Elainepeak 1947
- Charleanpeak 1952
- Thomasinepeak 1950
- Frediapeak 1948
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.