Constanza
Just 33 women in Poland carry it, and no girl has been given it since at least 2000. A Latin name at root, with the sense of steadfastness and constancy.
Constanza Pronunciation
Constanza is pronounced tsons-TAHN-zah (/t͡sɔnsˈtanza/).
What Constanza means
Where Constanza comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Constanza begins in Latin, in the word constantia: steadfastness, constancy. The same root gives English its adjective constant. Spanish took the noun and made it a name for a person, keeping the sense of holding firm.
History gives it a real bearer. Constanza de Castilla, born around 1354, was a daughter of King Pedro of Castile. She married John of Gaunt and pressed her claim to the Castilian throne for years. Her constancy was literal. She did not let the claim go.
The meaning stays close to the surface here. Constanza needs no folk story to explain it, because the Latin already says steadfastness out loud. Read it on a Spanish form at the urząd and the root is plain. A girl named Constanza carries a Roman word for standing firm, and the Polish gloss keeps it: stałość, niezłomność.
How many people are named Constanza
1 in 683146 women in Poland is named Constanza. 33 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6964 among female names.
Constanza as a middle name
Constanza is a first name for 33 women in Poland and a middle name for another 33, a 50/50 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1212th, between Caterina (33) and Elia (33).
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#1210 Belle33
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#1211 Caterina33
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#1212 Constanza33
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#1213 Elia33
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#1214 Emmanuelle33