Meaning of the nameConstantino

Male
Latin origin
Cons-tan-ti-no

Constantino is a male name of Latin origin, from Constantinus, derived from Constans, 'constant, firm'.

Meaning

“derived from the Latin Constans, 'constant, firm'”

People (2022): 2,714
Rank in Brazil: #4,153
Median age: 65 years
2010 Census: 4,159; people

Constantino in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Constantino, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1950s (603 people).

0 women 2,705 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Constantino is most common

States with the highest share of people named Constantino in the population, in the 2022 Census.

Piauí 0.005%
Maranhão 0.002%
Bahia 0.002%
Rio Grande do Sul 0.002%
Pará 0.002%

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	586	0.001%
Bahia	254	0.002%
Minas Gerais	247	0.001%
Rio de Janeiro	178	0.001%
Rio Grande do Sul	176	0.002%
Paraná	156	0.001%
Piauí	148	0.005%
Maranhão	140	0.002%
Pará	123	0.002%
Goiás	98	0.001%
Santa Catarina	91	0.001%
Mato Grosso	79	0.002%
Espírito Santo	58	0.002%
Tocantins	54	0.004%
Mato Grosso do Sul	53	0.002%
Ceará	46	0.001%
Amazonas	41	0.001%
Pernambuco	38	0.000%
Distrito Federal	34	0.001%
Paraíba	30	0.001%
Rondônia	20	0.001%
Sergipe	19	0.001%
Rio Grande do Norte	18	0.001%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

About the name Constantino

Wiktionary records Constantino as a learned borrowing from the Latin Cōnstantīnus. Behind the Name describes Constantinus as derived from Constans, and Wiktionary translates the Latin adjective cōnstāns as 'constant, firm, resolute'. The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil), based on Machado (1981), links the name to the Latin Constantinus. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 2,714 people named Constantino, with a median age of 65. The records are almost always male, and most were born in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Proportionally, it is most common in Piauí.

Sources

Wiktionary: Constantino · en.wiktionary.org · origin
Wiktionary: constans · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Behind the Name: Constantine · behindthename.com · origin
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Constantino · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · origin

Questions about the name Constantino

What does the name Constantino mean?

Constantino means “derived from the Latin Constans, 'constant, firm'”, according to Wiktionary.

How many people are named Constantino in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 2,714 people with the first name Constantino, which ranks it number 4,153 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1950s.

Is Constantino a boy's or a girl's name?

Constantino is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 0 women and 2,705 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

What is the origin of the name Constantino?

Constantino is a name of Latin origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Constantino most common?

Proportionally, in Piauí: 0.005% of the state's population is named Constantino (148 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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