CONSTANT

CONSTANT. 1. A contraction of Constantine. 2. An honourable appellation denoting the constancy of the bearer. 3. A sobriquet apjjlied to one vho M'as regular and pertinacious in some habit or custom. I knew a person whose real name was Hastings, who was better known among his neighbours as 'Old Constant,' from tlie regularity with which he appeared at a certain time in a certain place.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.