Constant Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

Arms linked to Costanzo and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

The meaning behind Constant

Spellings drift, and Constant is where Costanzo drifted for some families. The family name meaning is “Steadfast”, the same as for Costanzo.

Records show Constant as one of the forms Costanzo took over time. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Other spellings include Costanza and Di Costanzo. French birth records list 12,112 children named Constant between 1891 and 2000. Births ran at 756 in 1891–1900 and 1,005 in 1991–2000. Constant ranked 7,929 in the 2010 US Census, with 4,173 people answering to the name.

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