Constance

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Constance: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Constance: Recorded since 1964, with a gap of 12 years, it reached #244 in 2016, and it stood at #432 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
60times a registrar ranked it
61years from first to last
#244highest recorded position
17groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Constance's record

Absent from every published list for 12 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#309
1997	#332
1998	#366
1999	#309
2000	#318
2001	#310
2002	#340
2003	#389
2004	#340
2005	#274
2006	#315
2007	#281
2008	#265
2009	#319
2010	#281
2011	#289
2012	#267
2013	#267
2014	#282
2015	#255
2016	#244
2017	#288
2018	#275
2019	#266
2020	#368
2021	#371
2022	#400
2023	#340
2024	#432

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 23 of the 60 years from 1964 to 2023.

In 2024: #432 among girls in England and Wales, #476 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1964–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1964
First recorded at #372 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1964 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #244 among girls in England and Wales, in 2016 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #432 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Constance appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 4,130 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1964.

Constance across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Constance's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#372 (1964)	#315 (1967)	#727 (2023)	23 of 60	92 (1964–2023)	7 (2015)
England and Wales · Girls	#309 (1996)	#244 (2016)	#432 (2024)	29 of 29	4,130 (1996–2024)	209 (2016)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#358 (1997)	#273 (2004)	#354 (2022)	7 of 26	26 (1997–2022)	5 (2004)

Constance by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Constance in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	417	4 of 10	104
2000s	1,330	10 of 10	133
2010sbusiest	1,809	10 of 10	181
2020s	574	5 of 10	115

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 181 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2019 and 2020, when recorded births fell by 61, from 181 to 120.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Constance appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1964 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #244 in England and Wales in 2016.

Constance's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#432	99	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#340	126	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#400	105	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#371	124	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#368	120	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#266	181	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#275	174	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#288	170	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#244	209	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#255	195	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#282	170	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#267	178	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#267	186	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#289	170	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#281	176	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#319	141	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#265	183	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#281	169	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#315	140	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#274	159	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#340	113	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#389	94	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#340	106	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#310	118	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#318	107	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#309	110	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#366	89	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#332	103	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#309	115	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#354	4	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#353	4	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#351	4	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#273	5	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#358	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#727	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#700	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#716	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#629	5	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#585	6	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#532	7	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#768	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#798	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#593	6	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#742	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#576	3	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#457	4	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#445	4	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#542	3	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#315	5	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#380	3	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	female	#385	3	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	female	#372	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#476	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1964 and 2024, ranked in 37 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #244, first reached in 2016.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 209 births, registered in England and Wales in 2016.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 12 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 60 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

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Deividas · #249, 42y
Angelo · #250, 32y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Art · #244, 34y
Aedin · #243, 30y
Bruno · #243, 47y
Davis · #243, 31y

Constance was ranked #244 in England and Wales · Girls in 2016. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Constance and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Constance without appearing here.

Constance moved ahead of

Brittany Compare
In 2000 they stood at #318 and #275 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #310 and #871.
Carmel Compare
In 2014 they stood at #768 and #612 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2015 that had become #532 and #896.
Hayden Compare
In 2014 they stood at #798 and #798 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2015 that had become #532 and #896.
Therese Compare
In 2014 they stood at #876 and #876 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2015 that had become #532 and #896.

Moved ahead of Constance

Lily Compare
In 1996 they stood at #457 and #515 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1997 that had become #576 and #254.
Ellie Compare
In 1996 they stood at #457 and #515 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1997 that had become #576 and #263.
Ruby Compare
In 1996 they stood at #457 and #515 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1997 that had become #576 and #304.
Sofia Compare
In 2006 they stood at #273 and #316 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2007 that had become #351 and #115.

Moved the opposite way to Constance

Ada Compare
Between 1964 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Constance went from #372 to #727 while Ada went from #372 to #34.
Amelia Compare
Between 1964 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Constance went from #372 to #727 while Amelia went from #300 to #8.
Annie Compare
Between 1964 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Constance went from #372 to #727 while Annie went from #112 to #48.
Aoife Compare
Between 1964 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Constance went from #372 to #727 while Aoife went from #206 to #31.

Moved the same way as Constance

Alison Compare
Between 1964 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Constance went from #372 to #727 and Alison from #146 to #226.
Alma Compare
Between 1964 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Constance went from #372 to #727 and Alma from #327 to #625.
Amanda Compare
Between 1964 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Constance went from #372 to #727 and Amanda from #118 to #495.
Angela Compare
Between 1964 and 2023 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Constance went from #372 to #727 and Angela from #24 to #555.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1964 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #244 in England and Wales in 2016. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Constance

Constance at a glance

What stands out in Constance's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Constance across 3 official records

Constance by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Constance appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Constance at a glance

What stands out in Constance's record

Constance across 3 official records

Constance by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Constance appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Constance

Constance and the names beside it

Constance moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Constance

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