Concepción
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Concepción is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 15th most common given name. Recorded meaning: conception (fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote).
- ESSpain1 in 406(measured from records)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 528
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 747
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)
- #937 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 333 (measured from records)
- 1 in 406 (inferred from the name graph)
123,055 people
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Concepcion in AR Argentina, ES Spain, US United States and 3 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)
conception (fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Concepción 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #108 | 123,055 | 1 in 406 | 133K | Concepcion | 155 |
| PH Philippines | #220 | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | listed | Concepcion | 151 |
| US United States | — | 16,899 | 1 in 20K | 15K | Concepcion | 333 |
| NI Nicaragua | #15 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 528 | — | Concepcion | 17 |
| AR Argentina | #346 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 268 | Concepcion | 54 |
| SV El Salvador | #95 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 747 | — | Concepción | 26 |
| PY Paraguay | #18 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 65K | Concepcion | 36 |
123,055 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Dirección General del Registro del Estado Civil — registered given names 2015; the ph-gutenberg1905-names register. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Concepción is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Nombre místico; del latín conceptio, “concepción, generación”, de concipio, “concebir, contener”.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Que concibe
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Spanish: name commemorating the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. This doctrine was officially proclaimed by the Roman Catholic Church only in 1854, but had been debated since the 12th century and reached a peak of popularity in the late Middle Ages. Pet forms: Concha, Conchita. Cognate: Portuguese: Conceição .
as a word
In English, A number of places, including:
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)
- Concepción Arenal Ponteb. 1820ESSpanish lawyer, writer and feminist activist, editor (1820-1893)
- Conchita Supervíab. 1895ESnot in their usual namesinger (1895–1936)
- Concha Méndezb. 1898ESnot in their usual nameSpanish writer (1898–1986)
- Concha Piquerb. 1906ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer (1906-1990)
- China Zorrillab. 1922UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan actress (1922–2014)
- Montserrat Caballéb. 1933ESnot in their usual nameSpanish operatic soprano (1933–2018)
- Concha Velascob. 1939ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress-singer
- Concepción Gamarrab. 1974ESSpanish politician
- Sara Sálamob. 1992ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor
- Conchi LopezESnot in their usual nameSpanish voice actress
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 21 sources across 13 countries.
Reference works 3
- 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 Concepción mean, and where does it come from?
- conception (fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Concepción have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 123 thousand people named Concepción, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled concepcion.
- Where is Concepción most common?
- Concepción is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 406 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Concepción?
- In Spain, the national register counted 123,055 people named Concepción, about 1 in 406 residents.
- How common is Concepción compared with other names?
- In Spain, Concepción is the 108th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/concepci%C3%B3nThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Concepción” — the 108th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.