Asén

surname · Latin script

Asén is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country, where it is the 62nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: The Hebrew name Hashum (חָשֻׁם) is understood to mean "rich," "wealthy," or "enriched". Asén is also written Асен in Cyrillic and አሰን in Ethiopic.

  • BGBulgaria≈1 in 450(inferred from the name graph)
  • NLNetherlands≈1 in 30Kfew records
  • ESSpain1 in 220K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Asén itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)

≈14,000 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
121 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 448 (inferred from the name graph)

Bulgaria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Asén in other scripts: Cyrillic and Ethiopic

(measured from records)
AsénLatin(measured from records)
АсенAsén in Cyrillic(measured from records)
አሰንAsén in Ethiopic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Asen in BG Bulgaria, ES Spain, NL Netherlands and 1 more, አሰን in ET Ethiopia and Асен in KZ Kazakhstan.

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

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

The Hebrew name Hashum (חָשֻׁם) is understood to mean "rich," "wealthy," or "enriched".

Cited for this meaning 2

  • Biblical Names Compiled Database
  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Asén counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Asén is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BG Bulgaria#62≈14,000 est.≈1 in 448—Asen121
ET Ethiopia—≈14,000 est.≈1 in 9.6K—አሰን7
IN India—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 1.3M13Asen11
NL Netherlands—≈590 est.≈1 in 30K639Asen34
KZ Kazakhstan—≈290 est.≈1 in 72K340Асен8
ES Spain—2271 in 220K255Asen40
MK North Macedonia—95as Асен1 in 22K95—1

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence; State Statistical Office — living population names; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Finnish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden

    Also written Asen, Åsen, Åsén

  • German given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Asen, Åsen, Åsén

1 further group 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Asén under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Asén mean, and where does it come from?
The Hebrew name Hashum (חָשֻׁם) is understood to mean "rich," "wealthy," or "enriched". Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database and Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
Which countries have the most people named Asén?
Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Asén in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled asen. After it come Ethiopia, India, Netherlands and Kazakhstan; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Asén?
In Spain, the national register counted 227 people named Asén, about 1 in 220 thousand residents.
How common is Asén compared with other names?
In Bulgaria, Asén is the 62nd most common given name of 22,906 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Asén” — the 62nd most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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