Connie
Masculine · “steadfastness”
Connie is given to girls far more often — 266,783 girls against 6,957 boys since 1880. See Connie as a girl name
Connie serves three long names at once, and the main one is an abstract noun. Constance is Latin constantia — steadfastness, standing firm — one of a small group of virtue names that Christian Europe used long before the Puritans made a habit of it. Cornelia and Conrad supply the other two roads.
How old is the name Connie?
Connie was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Connie alive today was born around 1941, making them about 84 years old. About 2,700 people named Connie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Connie most popular?
Connie peaked in 1899, reaching #457 nationally. See the whole 1899 chart.
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Where it comes from
From constantia to Connie
The story of Connie
Abstract virtues as names are older in Catholic Europe than the Puritan Faith and Prudence suggest — Constance, Clemence, Patience and Felicity were all in medieval use. Constance came to England with the Normans and stayed. Connie went independent in twentieth-century America and became far more common than any of its parents, which is the ordinary fate of a good short form. It goes to boys as well, where it usually stands for Conrad or Cornelius rather than for Constance.
Meaning
steadfastness
Latin constantia is built on constare, to stand together or stand firm, and it names the quality rather than a person who has it. Constantine is the masculine form and belonged to the emperor who legalized Christianity, which is how the whole family became widely used. Cornelia is a Roman gens name of unknown meaning, and Conrad is Germanic, bold counsel. Connie can shorten any of the three, and often shortened none of them.
How the name formed
- constantia
- Constance
- Connie
Related forms: Costanza · Constanza · Constance · Konstanze
Pronouncing Connie
KON-ee
KON-ee, two syllables, stress at the front, the doubled n keeping the vowel short. Connie and Conny are said identically, and the -ie spelling is by far the more common of the two.
Nicknames for Connie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1880
- Most boys named
- 1946177 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #457reached in 1899
- Change vs 1994
- 0.0%5 in 2011, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Connie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Costanza in Italian — related form
- Constanza in Spanish — related form
- Constance in French — related form
- Konstanze in German — related form
Connies among us
people named Connie are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Connie sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Three long names are available behind it, in Latin, Roman and Germanic traditions.
- Two syllables, entirely unambiguous, and easy in any accent.
- The meaning of the main parent is a single clear virtue and pleasant to explain.
- It reads as a nickname on a document, and the long form has to be supplied by the family.
- The short form Con lands on an English word for a swindle, which is why it is rarely used.
- The name is very strongly associated with the mid twentieth century and dates a person closely.
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Frequently asked
- How many Connies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,700 people named Connie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Connie in 2025?
- Connie is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Connie with classmates?
- Connie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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