First name origins & meanings:
- Latin: Faithful
- Latin: Loyal
- Greek: Steadfast
First name variations: Connie, Constantia, Constanze, Constanza, Constantine, Constant, Kon, Konstanze, Konstance, Konstance, Konstant, Tino, Tinos, Konstantinos Last name origins & meanings:
- English and French: from the medieval female personal name
Constance, Latin Constantia, originally a feminine form
of Constantius (see Constant), but later taken as the
abstract noun constantia ‘steadfastness’.
- English and French: habitational name
from Coutances in La Manche, France, which was named Constantia
in Latin (see above) in honor of the Roman emperor Constantius
Chlorus, who was responsible for fortifying the settlement in
ad 305.
This name appears in the following lists:
Names from Shakespeare,
Virtues
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