Konstantin
Masculine · “constant”
Konstantin is Constantine as the Slavic and German languages carry him: the emperor who moved the Roman capital east and gave his name to the city that stood there for eleven centuries. The name is Latin and means steady, and it has never been out of use in the Orthodox world.
How old is the name Konstantin?
Konstantin first appears in US birth records in 1967 — 58 years ago. The typical Konstantin is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Konstantin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Konstantin most popular?
Konstantin peaked in 2015, reaching #2722 nationally. Today it ranks #4857, 2,135 places below that high. See the whole 2015 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Constantinus to Konstantin
The story of Konstantin
Constantine's decisions reshaped Europe, and his name went with the church he legalized: into Greek as Konstantinos, into the Slavic languages as Konstantin, into German with the same spelling. In Greece and Russia it has been among the most-given names for centuries, and the man who brought writing to the Slavs was born Konstantin before he took the name Cyril. It came to American records with Russian, Greek, Bulgarian, Serbian and German families, and the spelling with a k marks it as arriving from that direction rather than through English.
Meaning
constant, steadfast
Latin Constantinus, from constans, standing firm, steady, unchanging. The same root gives the English words constant and constancy.
How the name formed
- Constantinus
- Konstantinos
- Konstantin
Related forms: Κωνσταντίνος · Constantine · Costantino · Constantino · Constantin · Constantin
Pronouncing Konstantin
KON-stun-teen
Three syllables. Russian and German put the stress at the end, kon-stan-TEEN; American English usually moves it to the front. Both are used and neither is wrong.
Nicknames for Konstantin
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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
- 1967
- Most boys named
- 201544 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2722reached in 2015
- Change vs 2024
- −13.0%20 in 2025, from 23
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.
Konstantin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Κωνσταντίνος in Greek — transliteration
- Constantine in English — same name
- Costantino in Italian — same name
- Constantino in Spanish — same name
- Constantin in French — same name
- Constantin in Romanian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New York, Illinois.
Konstantins among us
people named Konstantin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 85,404 born in 2025 was named Konstantin
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Konstantin
- #4857
- Konstantin on the 2025 chart
- #900
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Konstantin went to 20 boys in 2025, but Constantin is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 28, which makes it the 900th most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,957 places above the chart.
- Konstantin20
- Constantin8
About 1 boy in 61,003 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 85,404 for Konstantin itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Trejon test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Konstantin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Trejon climbed just as high around 1999, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Trejon's path sketches the road Konstantin is walking now.
Konstantin sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Konstantin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Konstantin in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It carries one of the best-documented histories of any name in Europe.
- It offers short forms from several languages, Kostya and Kostas among them.
- It is at home in Russian, Greek, German, Bulgarian and Serbian households alike.
- Three syllables and eleven letters is long for American forms.
- The stress moves between languages, so the name is said two ways in one life.
- Constantine is the English spelling and will be substituted by people writing quickly.
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Frequently asked
- How many Konstantins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Konstantin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Konstantin?
- Konstantin is the most-used spelling in US records — 20 of the 28 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Constantin.
- How popular is the name Konstantin in 2025?
- Konstantin ranks #4857 among US boy names in 2025, with 20 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Konstantin?
- About 1 in every 85,404 US boys born in 2025 was named Konstantin — 20 in all.
- Will my child share the name Konstantin with classmates?
- Konstantin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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