Connie is a given name.
It is often a pet form (hypocorism) of Concetta, Constance, Cornelia, Cornelius or Connor, Conrad, Constanza, Conception, Consuela, Consuelo, or Conner.
Many Asian-American women were named after journalist Connie Chung in the 1980s even though the name was not otherwise popular at the time.
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