Asunciòn

given name · Latin script

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

Asunciòn is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 82nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Asunción, from asunción (“assumption (of Mary to heaven)”), in reference to the Our Lady of the Assumption (Nuestra Señora de la Asunción), a religious epithet for Mary.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 2.7K
  • PEPeru≈1 in 2.9K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

26,859 people

Sources
209 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.9K (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 Asuncion in PE Peru, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 4 more.

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)

Derivation of Asunciòn: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Asunciòn
  1. SpanishAsunción(measured from records)
  2. Spanish rootasunción“assumption (of Mary to heaven(measured from records)

Borrowed from Spanish Asunción, from asunción (“assumption (of Mary to heaven)”), in reference to the Our Lady of the Assumption (Nuestra Señora de la Asunción), a religious epithet for Mary.

Sources 3

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • A dictionary of surnames
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Asunciòn 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 Asunciòn is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#18426,8591 in 1.9K30KAsuncion134
PH Philippines—≈20,000 est.≈1 in 5.6K16KAsuncion99
PE Peru#359≈11,000 est.≈1 in 2.9K—Asuncion48
AR Argentina#518≈6,300 est.≈1 in 7.2K386Asuncion48
VE Venezuela#3955,2501 in 5.5K5.3KAsuncion28
PY Paraguay#145≈2,600 est.≈1 in 2.7K—Asuncion24
NI Nicaragua#82≈2,000 est.≈1 in 3K—Asuncion10

26,859 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking. 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)

Asunciòn is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Spain, United Kingdom

    Also written Asuncion, Asunción

3 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Asunciòn 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 Asunciòn mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Spanish Asunción, from asunción (“assumption (of Mary to heaven)”), in reference to the Our Lady of the Assumption (Nuestra Señora de la Asunción), a religious epithet for Mary. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 1 other source.
Is Asunciòn a male or female name?
Asunciòn is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Asunciòn have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 27 thousand people named Asunciòn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled asuncion.
Where is Asunciòn most common?
Asunciòn is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.9 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Asunciòn?
In Spain, the national register counted 26,859 people named Asunciòn, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
How common is Asunciòn compared with other names?
In Spain, Asunciòn is the 184th most common given name of 135,644 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, “Asunciòn” — the 184th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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