Given name & surname · also Late Latin
Constantine
“one who is steadfast; firm”
Constantine is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “one who is steadfast; firm.”
Original LatinConstantinus
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “one who is steadfast; firm.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Late Latin.
How it developed
From Latin Cōnstantīnus, from Latin cōnstāns (“constant, steadfast”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1885. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Constantine through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6,720
- 6,678 boys · 42 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 114 babies
- 2025
- 108
- #1,573 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +4%
- Steady
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 108 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 1,573 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 2.7% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 112 in 2014. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (19). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,241 as a first name in 2020; 5,086 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Constantine’s family of names
In English usage, Constantine has a diminutive in Connie. Constantine shares a linguistic root with Konstantin. In English usage, Constantine has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Constantino.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Constantine has relatives in 24 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Constantine comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 13
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Conniediminutive · English
- Constantinovariant · Spanish, Portuguese
- Konstantinvariant · German, Finnish
- Costavariant
- Constantinvariant · French
- Connypet form · Swedish
- Constantvariant
- Constantyvariant
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Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 38
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Constantinusmedieval form of · Latin
- Konstantinosdoublet · English
- Kostaequivalent
- Kostasequivalent
- CostantinoItalian
- Dinosrelated form
- KonstantyPolish
- Kostadinequivalent
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- Kostiantynequivalent
- Кӏушкӏантӏиequivalent
- Kʉstentinequivalent
- Костянтинequivalent
- قسطنطينequivalent
- Канстанцінequivalent
- Κωνσταντῖνοςequivalent
- Kostandinequivalent
- Kostëequivalent
- ΚωνσταντίνοςGreek
- Konstadinosdoublet · English
- Konstantīnscognate · Latvian
- KonstandinAlbanian
- KonstantinasLithuanian
- CostinRomanian
- ConstaintínIrish
- CystenninWelsh
- ΚώσταςGreek
- KonstantinusFinnish
- KonštantínSlovak
- КонстантинMacedonian
- SzilárdHungarian
- KonstaFinnish
- КостадинMacedonian
- TijnDutch
- ConstantíCatalan
- ConstantijnDutch
- Konstantyncognate · Polish
- KostiFinnish
- Còiseamcognate
People named Constantine
- Constantine IIIWestern Roman Emperor from 407 to 411400–411
- Constantine II of Scotland10th-century king of Scotland (Alba)801–952
- Constantine III of ScotlandKing of Scotland (971-997)
- Constantine Samuel RafinesqueFrench naturalist (1783-1840)
- Constantine the African11th-century monk and translator of medical works1050–1087
- Constantine BodinMedieval king of Duklja, and temporary of Bulgaria1050–1108
- Constantine I TihBulgarian ruler1300–1277
- Constantine I, Prince of ArmeniaArmenian noble
- Constantine I of GeorgiaKing of Georgia1369–1412
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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