Constantia

con-STAN-tee-ah, con-STAN-sha
Latin
"constant, steadfast"

Constantia Origin and Meaning

The name Constantia is a girl's name of Italian origin meaning "constant, steadfast".

A rare and refined name, which could make for a surprising route to cute nickname Connie.

Constantia in Pop Culture

  • Means "constancy, firmness" in Latin (see Constance)
  • Name of a wealthy suburb in Cape Town, South Africa.
  • Constantia Lorridaile, a great,aunt to the eponymous Lord Fauntleroy in the 1886 children's novel "Little Lord Fauntleroy" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Constantia ("Con"), younger sister of Josephine in Katherine Mansfield's short story "The Daughters of the Late Colonel" (1922)
  • "To Constantia, Singing" (1817), poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • A character in "The Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley" (1607), by Anonymous

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