Konstancja
A Latin name meaning "constant, steadfast". Most Poles have never met one: it sits well down the list, and after a steadier run through the 2010s, fewer girls receive it each year now.
Konstancja Pronunciation
Konstancja is pronounced kons-TAHNTS-yah (/kɔnsˈtant͡sja/).
What Konstancja means
Where Konstancja comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Konstancja comes from Latin, from the noun constantia and the adjective constans, meaning constant and steadfast. The Romans used the word for a quality they admired, the ability to hold a position without wavering. It reached Polish through the Church calendar and the royal court, and it kept that plain sense of stałość, of standing firm under pressure.
Poland has a documented bearer in Konstancja Austriacka, the Habsburg archduchess who became queen as the second wife of Zygmunt III Waza. She was crowned in 1605, she raised a large family, and she left her name in the royal records. The masculine variants Konstantyn and Konstanty travel beside the feminine form. The diminutive Kostek trims the whole thing down for daily use.
On a Polish class register the full Konstancja looks formal, while Kostek is the version a friend uses. The two live side by side.
The meaning has stayed close to the root: steadfast, the same constantia the Romans once meant.
When Konstancja celebrates name day
Konstancja appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 18 February.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Konstancja
1 in 7408 women in Poland is named Konstancja. 3,043 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #586 among female names.
Konstancja's popularity over time
65 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #308 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2001.
Where parents choose Konstancja
Konstancja is most popular in Masovian, 62% above the national average (167 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+60%) and Pomeranian (+26%). It is least common in Holy Cross and Silesian, 88% and 43% below average respectively.
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Masovian
+62%1 in 2,121 babies
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Greater Poland
+60%1 in 2,152 babies
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Pomeranian
+26%1 in 2,728 babies
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Holy Cross
−88%1 in 27,717 babies
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Silesian
−43%1 in 5,989 babies
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Lesser Poland
−33%1 in 5,157 babies
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Masovian+62% 167 born1 in 2,121 babies+62%
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Greater Poland+60% 100 born1 in 2,152 babies+60%
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Pomeranian+26% 54 born1 in 2,728 babies+26%
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Lubusz+11% 16 born1 in 3,104 babies+11%
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West Pomeranian+10% 27 born1 in 3,127 babies+10%
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Subcarpathian−6% 33 born1 in 3,653 babies−6%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian−12% 28 born1 in 3,906 babies−12%
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Podlaskie−16% 16 born1 in 4,112 babies−16%
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Warmian-Masurian−19% 17 born1 in 4,223 babies−19%
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Łódź−19% 30 born1 in 4,224 babies−19%
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Lublin−20% 24 born1 in 4,278 babies−20%
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Lower Silesian−30% 32 born1 in 4,910 babies−30%
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Lesser Poland−33% 44 born1 in 5,157 babies−33%
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Silesian−43% 38 born1 in 5,989 babies−43%
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Holy Cross−88% 2 born1 in 27,717 babies−88%
Konstancja as a middle name
Konstancja is a first name for 3,043 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4,218, a 42/58 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 153rd, between Adela (4,339) and Bożenna (4,116).
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#151 Pelagia4,392
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#152 Adela4,339
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#153 Konstancja4,218
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#154 Bożenna4,116
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#155 Andżelika4,089