Entry № 2147 · Spanish origin

Consuela Consuela — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kon-SWAY-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Consolation (from Our Lady of Consolation)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "consolation (from our lady of consolation)".

The name carries deep significance in Catholic devotion across Spain, Mexico, and Latin America — the Virgin of Consolation is the patroness of multiple cities including Sucre (Bolivia) and various Augustinian communities worldwide.

Consolation (from Our Lady of Consolation) — a Spanish name.

The name in its native script.

Consuela
Transliteration
Consuela
Pronunciation
/ kɒnˈsweɪ.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Consuela stands.

Consuela does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Consuelas before her.

Real people
Consuelo Vanderbilt
American-British heiress.
1877 – 1964
Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
Salvadoran-French writer.
1901 – 1979
Consuelo Velázquez
Mexican composer of "Bésame Mucho".
1916 – 2005
In fiction
Consuelo
George Sand's Consuelo.
1842

Names connected to Consuela.

The number behind Consuela.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Consuela reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.