Naming our daughter Constance

[Leanne001]

What are people’s thoughts/opinions on this name please? 🤔 Any suggestions on this or similar names would be fantastic or names that would go with it (middle names etc)
Thankyou any help is appreciated.

Hmmmm.

It’s kind of nice in an abstract way, like for a character in a book.

But I’m not sure your daughter would thank you for it - it’s one of those names which embody what parents want their child to be, rather than how the child will see themselves, if that makes sense.

She would have to be very a wholesome and modest person to live up to it, and she might not be 🤷🏼‍♀️

I’ve only ever come across one Constance. Her nn is Stanzi which I love. I really like the name.

Other suggestions - Liberty, Hope, Clemency/Clementine, Emmeline.

We chose the spelling Betheny changing it from the original spelling because we have a friend (who also called her daughter Bethany) and she would think and feel we named her our daughter after her daughter and she would just go and show off that we called our daughter after hers maybe even lull it over us? If that makes sense?

Lovely

I know a Cadence which is similar.

Constance Bethany is lovely. Changing the spelling to Betheny because your friend might show off is very odd and suggests to me that the friendship is rather immature. Using Bethany as a middle name will reduce the amount of mileage your 'friend' will get as very few people would imagine one person's baby was named after another person's baby/toddler, names used in honour of another person tend to be names inspired by adults.

Other middle names for Constance:
Rachel
Madeleine
Imogen
Isabelle
Emily
Abigail
Jennifer
Charlotte
Louisa
Eloise
Helena
Eleanor
Jessica

Love Constance. Connie is cute. Please don't ever shorten it Con. It's French for idiot..... or much worse.

I like Felicity and Grace which I think are virtue names but not too virtuous if you see what I mean. But Constance is good, though Constanza is a prettier spelling.

(I watched some dire programme a while ago about a deeply misogynistic sect in New Zealand, they gave their children very virtuous names, and at the end of the last part there was a montage of some of the children introducing themselves, there were some real eyebrow raisers!)

Ps if you Google “Gloriavale names” you won’t have to sit through the series.

Love it. DD has a Connie in her class and it's classic, sweet and slightly unusual. Go for it

Really dislike Constance, but love Connie as a nn. Florence?

My nan was Constance - she hated it. Everyone called her 'No nonsense Constance' - she equally hated Connie much to a family members disappointment after she named her daughter Connie in recognition of nan 🙈

Nan ended up going by her middle name for most of her life and refused to respond if anyone called her Constance.

I love it 🥰

Constance is ok, Connie is nice, Betheny with that spelling is honestly absolutely awful and if someone you know has a Bethany, using your alternative spelling isn't going to stop them commenting about it!

If you use Betheny as a first name, she will spend her life having to spell her name, which will likely annoy her. If you are really worried about your friend thinking you have copied her then use Constance Bethany instead (as middle names are rarely used). Spelling it Betheny will make no difference to your friend (if she was going to be bothered by it anyway) as Betheny sounds exactly the same as Bethany!

Oh I would go very fancy with a middle name for this!

Constance Gabriella
Constance Arianna
Constance Ariadne

A friend has a daughter called Constance. Connie for short and I absolutely love both versions ❤️

Constance Betheny sounds great to me - although autocorrect kept telling me it should be Bethany - as a second name could that be OK i.e. with an a rather than an e - I prefer Constance to Bethany in whatever spelling

But all best to you @Leanne001

Betheny is awful. Please don't make up your own spelling. Your friend doesn't have exclusive rights to the name. And if she assumes you've named your daughter after hers, then that's on her. Unless you confirm it, she'll look like an idiot.

Daughter - 'it's Betheny. With an e'

Person 'ah. Ok. Yes. BEthany'.

Daughter. 'No. 2 es'.

Person 'ok. BEEthany'.

Daughter 'it's BETHENY. ..... '

Person ........

Daughter 'I don't know why they spelt it like that either'

I love Constance, it's on my list of current pregnancy turns out to be a girl. Love Bethany too, as either middle or first but please don't spell it wrong just to be different, it'll be a lifelong pain for your daughter having to correct everyone to spell her name 'wrong'.

Sorry., just catching up with your messages... I agree with all your advice! Thankyou all again.that Gloriavale cult does have some unusual not so common names lol.,

We have decided on the following (leaving out the surname which starts with M)..

Constance Autumn Lilly
Bethany Constance
Constance Bethany
Constance Clementine (C.C for nickname)
Clementine Constance (again C.C for nickname)
Clementine (No Middle name)
Constance (No Middlw name)

Sorry for the fast short reply little'buds sleeping habits changing 😴

I had a great auntie Connie. She was one of the worlds most beautiful souls, I miss her a lot.

Constance autumn lily is lovely go with that