Ascensión

loc · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ascensión is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ascensión (“Ascension (of Jesus to heaven)”), shortened from María (de la) Ascensión, a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary; also referring to birth on Ascension Day.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 574K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 2.1K
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 72K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

24,106 people

Sources
80 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ascension in ES Spain, US United States.

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)

ascensión (“Ascension (of Jesus to heaven)”), shortened from María (de la) Ascensión, a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary; also referring to birth on Ascension Day.

Sources 2

  • Wiktionary
  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ascensión 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 Ascensión is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain24,1061 in 2.1K26KAscension38
US United States5801 in 574K391Ascension80
CR Costa Rica711 in 72K71——
UY Uruguay161 in 212K16——
SE Sweden81 in 1.3M8——

24,106 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)

Ascensión is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Ascension, Ascensiòn

  • Spanish given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Argentina, Mexico, United States

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Ascension

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ascension

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Ascension

27 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ascensión is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Asturian, ascension (the act of ascending)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Spanish, Latin ascensio from ascendere, 'to go up, ascend'

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Ascensión Chirivella Marín, b. 1894Ascensión Hernández Triviño, b. 1940Ascension Badiola, b. 1961Ascensión de las Heras, b. 1964María Jesús Burró, b. 1976

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ascensión mean, and where does it come from?
ascensión (“Ascension (of Jesus to heaven)”), shortened from María (de la) Ascensión, a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary; also referring to birth on Ascension Day. Recorded by Wiktionary and Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
In which country does Ascensión have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 24 thousand people named Ascensión, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ascension.
Where is Ascensión most common?
Ascensión is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.1 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Ascensión?
In Spain, the national register counted 24,106 people named Ascensión, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.

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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, “Ascensión”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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