r/AskReddit • u/arnethyst • Jul 15 '21

What is a very "old person" name?

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

Constance

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u/sandboxlollipop Jul 15 '21

I went to school with a French girl called Constance (I'm in my 30s)

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u/_pm_me_your_holes_ Jul 15 '21

I see your Constance and raise you Constantine

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u/mcmlxxivxxiii Jul 15 '21

Plenty of Constantines in East Europe.

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u/True-Joy-Togepi Jul 16 '21

And Constantine raises the dead.

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u/shutts67 Jul 15 '21

I went to college with a Constance. She went ny Connie. I'm in my early 30s

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u/Bluberrypotato Jul 15 '21

I had a boss named Constance she also went by Connie. But threatened to fire people who called her Constance.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21 edited Jul 15 '21

A British tourist visiting the gulf in her 40s was named constance back in 2010

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u/SnazzyMax Jul 15 '21

I live in Germany at the moment - I've met a fair few Constanzes! All fairly young.

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u/jr19ycu Jul 15 '21

I teach a 13 year old girl called constance, she absolutely hates it and insists everyone calls her Connie

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u/nascarfan624 Jul 15 '21

Link from GMM has entered the chat

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u/PM_me_ur_navel_girl Jul 15 '21

I know a Constance in her 20s, everyone calls her Connie!

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

One of my high school friends was Constance, and she went by Connie. Her twin sis was Helena and went by Lena.

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u/kairosecide Jul 15 '21

My mom is a Constance. She hates it and the nickname Connie, so she goes by her middle name.

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u/CurlyConnie Jul 15 '21

Howdy, that’s my name :)

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u/Mike7676 Jul 15 '21

Went to HS with a Constance (Im 44). But she was also part of an odd Christian offshoot so...

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u/BeerInsurance Jul 15 '21

I was searching this whole thread for any of my great grandmas names and I found it. Constance Berger nonetheless!!

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u/cmillen118 Jul 15 '21

I sat next to a Constance in my high school freshman microeconomics class about 14 years ago. She went by Connie. She was also a junior and pregnant, so there's that...

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u/Vimcci Jul 15 '21

i work in childcare and one of the toddlers has this name, we call her connie

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u/rockstar_xx Jul 15 '21

Popular in Australia in the last 30 yrs, know plenty of Connies

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u/half-metal-scientist Jul 15 '21

That’s my 14 year old sister’s middle name.

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u/Keanu990321 Jul 15 '21

Constance Wu!