Given name & surname · also Latin
Consuelo
“one who offers consolation”
Consuelo is used as a given name and a surname. One Spanish interpretation is “one who offers consolation.”
Original SpanishChelo
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Spanish interpretation is “one who offers consolation.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1890. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Consuelo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 17,045
- 90 boys · 16,955 girls
- Most popular year
- 1928
- 387 babies
- 2025
- 13
- #7,977 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −24%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 13 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 7,977 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 24.0% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 379 in 1928. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 26,069 as a first name in 2020; 309 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.
Consuelo’s family of names
Consuelo has an affectionate form in Chelo. Consuelo shares a linguistic root with Consolata. In English usage, Consuelo has a related form in Consuela.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 10
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Chelodiminutive · Spanish
- Maríavariant · Spanish
- Consuellolikely variant
- Consuelavariant · English
- Consueleyovariant
- Consueliyovariant
- Consueleovariant
- Consueliovariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Consuelo
- Consuelo VelázquezMexican concert pianist, songwriter and recording artist (1916-2005)
- Consuelo VanderbiltAmerican socialite (1877-1964)
- Consuelo de Saint-ExupérySalvadoran-French writer and artist (1901-1979)
- Consuelo TrujilloSpanish actressborn 1959
- Conchita CintrónChile-born Peruvian torera (female bullfighter)1922–2009
- Consuelo González RamosSpanish nurse, journalist and feminist, editor1877–1956
- Consuelo Álvarez PoolSpanish writer and suffragette (1867-1959)
- Consuelo BergesSpanish translator, journalist, writer and biographer (1899–1988)
- Consuelo Adlermodelborn 1976
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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