Asuncion

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: August, the Feast of the Assumption (OSp. asumpcion, LL assumptio, gen. assumption^, from assumere to take up)

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

/asunsjon/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Asuncion 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.

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

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

August, the Feast of the Assumption (OSp. asumpcion, LL assumptio, gen. assumption^, from assumere to take up). It may also reflect a given name bestowed with refer¬ ence to the Marian title Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion ‘Our Lady of the Assumption’. Cogn.: Port.: Assuncao

Sources 1

  • A dictionary of surnames

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

How Asuncion is read(measured from records)

Asuncion is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish88%

    August, the Feast of the Assumption (OSp. asumpcion, LL assumptio, gen. assumption^, from assumere to take up). It may also reflect a given name bestowed with refer¬ ence to the Marian title Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion ‘Our Lady of the Assumption’. Cogn.: Port.: Assuncao

    as a nameA dictionary of surnames

  • English6.3%

    city, dept., Paraguay; pers. name.

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

    island, Micronesia

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Asuncion 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 Asuncion 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)

Asuncion is also recorded as 6 other names, 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 Asunción, Asunciòn

  • French given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, Spain, United States

    Also written Asunción, Asuncíon, Úúnçioń, Asuncioñ

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Asuncíon, Asunción

  • Swahili given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Spain, Peru

    Also written Asunción

  • Arabic given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Egypt, United States, Philippines

    Also written Asunción

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, United States, Spain, Philippines

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Asunción

60 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)

Asuncion 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.

  • Marian name commemorating the assumption of the Virgin Mary into heaven.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Filipino, a surname from Spanish, the 81st most common in the Philippines

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

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)

19001920194019601980José Asunción Flores, b. 1904Elsa O'Connor, b. 1906Asunción Cruañes Molina, b. 1925Asunción Sancho, b. 1930Asunción Valdés, b. 1950Susi Sánchez, b. 1955María Asunción Aramburuzabala, b. 1963Maruchi León, b. 1965Asunción Gómez Pérez, b. 1967Sunny Hostin, b. 1968

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 49 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Asuncion
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—30K#148
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—27K#281
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—5.3K#353
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—35#17,025
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20238#2,434
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)20153—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)20153—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Asuncion mean, and where does it come from?
August, the Feast of the Assumption (OSp. asumpcion, LL assumptio, gen. assumption^, from assumere to take up). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
How do you pronounce Asuncion?
A machine transcription gives /asunsjon/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Asuncion a male or female name?
Asuncion 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 Asuncion have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 27 thousand people named Asuncion, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled asuncion.
Where is Asuncion most common?
Asuncion is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.9 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Asuncion?
In Spain, the national register counted 26,859 people named Asuncion, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
How common is Asuncion compared with other names?
In Spain, Asuncion 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, “Asuncion” — the 184th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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