Constantin
From the Greek for "constant, steadfast". In Poland it stays rare: fewer than a thousand men carry it, and most Poles have never met one.
Constantin Pronunciation
Constantin is pronounced tsons-TAHN-teen (/t͡sɔnsˈtantin/).
What Constantin means
Where Constantin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Constantin reaches Polish from the Greek Konstantinos, a name built to mean constant and steadfast. It traveled across the Byzantine world in the shadow of Constantine the Great, the emperor whose city became Konstantynopol. Polish speakers usually settle on the fuller form Konstanty, and the same boy answers to Kostek among family.
The short meaning, stały and niezłomny, holds a person to a single instruction: stay fixed. The name means what it promises. The English word constant grew from the same root, an old habit of naming someone for a virtue. There is a feminine counterpart, Konstancja, which carries the idea across to a daughter.
Read a class register in a Polish school and Konstanty stands out. On the imieniny the diminutive wins, and it is Kostek who blows out the candles.
How many people are named Constantin
1 in 21939 men in Poland is named Constantin. 973 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #979 among male names.
Constantin's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Constantin as a middle name
Constantin is a first name for 973 men in Poland and a middle name for another 97, a 91/9 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 721st, between Salvador (98) and Islam (97).
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#719 Guy98
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#720 Salvador98
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#721 Constantin97
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#722 Islam97
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#723 Leandro97