Consuela
Feminine · “consolation”
Spanish spells this name with an o and means to. Consuelo is the standard form, given to women despite ending the way a man's name ends, because what is being honored is a title rather than a person. Changing the o to an a tidies up a grammar that Spanish deliberately leaves untidy.
How old is the name Consuela?
Consuela first appears in US birth records in 1904 — 121 years ago. The typical Consuela alive today was born around 1973, making them about 52 years old. About 1,600 people named Consuela are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Consuela most popular?
Consuela peaked in 1972, reaching #881 nationally. See the whole 1972 chart.
Where it comes from
From consuelo to Consuela
The story of Consuela
The title behind it is one of the oldest names given to the Virgin: Our Lady of Consolation, patron of a great many parishes and of at least one religious order. Names of this kind are not built from a saint's personal name at all; they are built from a phrase describing what the Virgin is being asked to be, which is why so many Spanish women's names are abstract nouns — Refuge, Help, Snow, Pillar, Solitude. Read as vocabulary they sound strange in English translation. Read as what they are, which is one half of a prayer, they make immediate sense.
Meaning
consolation
The ordinary Spanish noun, from a Marian title. The word is masculine in gender, which is why the standard name ends as it does, and the sense is transparent to any Spanish speaker.
How the name formed
- consuelo
- Consuelo
- Consuela
Related forms: Consuelo
Pronouncing Consuela
kon-SWAY-lah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The ue is a single gliding sound in Spanish rather than two vowels, which English speakers tend to separate.
Nicknames for Consuela
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
- 1904
- Most girls named
- 1971133 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #881reached in 1972
- Change vs 2011
- −16.7%5 in 2021, from 6
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.
Consuela in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Consuelo in Spanish — same name
Consuelas among us
people named Consuela 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
Consuela 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
- The meaning is warm, specific and understood instantly by any Spanish speaker.
- It has an established short form rather than an improvised one.
- The rhythm is even and the name carries well at length.
- The o spelling is the standard one and this will be corrected by Spanish speakers.
- English speakers separate the ue into two syllables, adding a beat.
- It is long, and most people will shorten it immediately.
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Frequently asked
- How many Consuelas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,600 people named Consuela are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Consuela in 2025?
- Consuela is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Consuela with classmates?
- Consuela will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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