# Constant (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/constant/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 386 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 360 / 26 (7% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 5 | 6,429 |
| 1960 | 6 | 5,823 |
| 1961 | 5 | 6,732 |
| 1963 | 5 | 6,774 |
| 1980 | 5 | 10,708 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 5 | 3,586 |
| 1941 | 5 | 3,599 |
| 1942 | 8 | 2,750 |
| 1943 | 8 | 2,773 |
| 1946 | 6 | 3,240 |
| 1947 | 5 | 3,826 |
| 1948 | 5 | 3,783 |
| 1951 | 5 | 3,815 |
| 1961 | 5 | 4,178 |
| 1964 | 5 | 4,154 |
| 1981 | 6 | 5,631 |
| 1989 | 5 | 8,105 |
| 1992 | 5 | 8,642 |
| 1995 | 5 | 9,101 |
| 2020 | 6 | 10,874 |

## People named Constant

- André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist
- Constant Troyon, French painter (1810-1865)
- Constant Permeke, Belgian painter and sculptor (1886-1952)
- Constant von Wurzbach, Austrian lexicographer (1818–1893)
- Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (1920-2005)
- Benoît-Constant Coquelin, French actor (1841-1909)
- Constant Lambert, British composer and conductor (1905–1951)
- Constant Joacim, Belgian footballer (1908-1979)
- Constant Lestienne, French tennis player
- Constant Huysmans, Belgian footballer (1928-2016)
- Constant Feith, Dutch footballer (1884-1958)
- Constant Vanden Stock, football coach, football club president (1914-2008)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.