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The CONSTANCE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,468 17627 0.001 5
United States (1880 census) 140 24933 0 3
Change since 1880 +1328 +7306 +N/A +2
Other Countries
Australia 181 8247 0.001 11
United Kingdom 453 9508 0.001 10
Top States for CONSTANCE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 222 2518 0.005 50
New York 115 15438 0.001 6
California 98 22103 0.000 3
Michigan 79 14995 0.001 8
Florida 76 20345 0.000 5
Top States for CONSTANCE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 222 2518 0.005 50
New Hampshire 17 8158 0.001 14
South Carolina 52 6930 0.001 13
Missouri 55 11529 0.001 10
North Carolina 72 8431 0.001 9

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CONSTANCE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CONSTANCE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CONSTANCE in Louisiana than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CONSTANCE by picking someone at random in Louisiana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CONSTANCE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CONSTANCE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CONSTANCE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CONSTANCE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 114 7.77
White (Hispanic) 55 3.75
Mixed Race 19 1.29
White (Caucasian) 1,269 86.44
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CONSTANCE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of CONSTANCE in historical publications

CONSTANCE. Probably Coutances in Normandy, which is latinized Constantia.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to CONSTANCE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CONSTANCE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CONSTANCE

The following words are slight variants of CONSTANCE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.