Connie

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Conn in UA Ukraine and Conny in LA Laos.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Connie is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name170K records spelled Connie17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, France, Brazil, Mexico

  Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

  Also written Connîe, Connié, Connïe, Çonnie, Cönnïë

• Polish given name13K records spelled Connie22 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia

  Languages: Polish, Czech, Russian

  Also written Conny, Conni, Конни, Konnie, Konni

58 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Connie is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, A diminutive of the female given name Constance or, rarely, of Concepción.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In German, ) 2Conny: weibl. Vom., in

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• English: pet form of CONSTANCE .

  as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Connie Sawyerb. 1912USAmerican actress (1912-2018)
• Connie Stevensb. 1938USAmerican actress and singer
• Connie Boothb. 1940USAmerican writer and actress (born 1940)
• Connie Hawkinsb. 1942USAmerican basketball player (1942–2017)
• Connie Willisb. 1945USAmerican science fiction writer
• Connie Selleccab. 1955USactress, spokesperson, activist
• Connie Hedegaardb. 1960DKDanish politician
• Connie Nielsenb. 1965DKDanish actress (born 1965)
• Connie Brittonb. 1967USAmerican actress
• Connie Talbotb. 2000GBBritish singer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 884 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Connie?

We estimate roughly 229 thousand people bear Connie (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Connie have the most bearers?

We estimate about 207 thousand people bear Connie in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled connie.

Where is Connie most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Connie is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 749 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is Connie compared with other names?

In the United States, Connie is the 210th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

Is Connie a male or female name?

Connie is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Connie mean?

Recorded meaning: Ellefson is the author of A Genealogist’s Guide to Ethnic Given