Encarnación
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Alude a la Encarnación de Jesús en su madre María
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/eŋkarnasjon/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Encarnación is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 502(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela1 in 7K
- PEPeru≈1 in 7.8K
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)
- Sources
- 269 (measured from records)
- 1 in 502 (inferred from the name graph)
99,567 people
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 Encarnacion in ES Spain, AR Argentina, PE Peru 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)
Alude a la Encarnación de Jesús en su madre María
Sources 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Encarnación 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 | #149 | 99,567 | 1 in 502 | 107K | Encarnacion | 133 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | listed | Encarnacion | 71 |
| PE Peru | #650 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Encarnacion | 43 |
| VE Venezuela | #401 | 4,076 | 1 in 7K | 4.1K | Encarnacion | 17 |
| AR Argentina | #703 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 323 | Encarnacion | 34 |
| SV El Salvador | #591 | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Encarnacion | 7 |
99,567 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); 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)
Encarnación is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Spanish: name commemorating the festival of the Incarnation (Spanish encarnación , from Late Latin incarn tio , a derivative of caro flesh), celebrated on Christmas Day. Short form: Encarna .
as a word
In Galician, incarnation
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, Latín eclesiástico incarnatio, ‘la que se refiere al misterio cristiano del Verbo hecho carne’
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)
- Encarnación Ezcurrab. 1795ARArgentine politician (1795–1838)
- La Argentinitab. 1898ESnot in their usual nameSpanish dancer and singer (1898–1945)
- Encarna Sánchezb. 1935ESnot in their usual nameSpanish television presenter (1935–1996)
- César Cedeñob. 1951DOnot in their usual nameDominican Republic baseball player
- Angelo Encarnaciónb. 1969DODominican Republic baseball player
- Regine Velasquezb. 1970PHnot in their usual nameFilipina singer and actress (born 1970)
- Mario Encarnaciónb. 1975DObaseball player (1975–2005)
- Juan Sosab. 1975DOnot in their usual nameDominican Republic baseball player
- Nani Gaitanb. 1976ESnot in their usual nameSpanish model, businesswoman, coach and TV presenter
- Edwin Encarnaciónb. 1983DODominican professional baseball first baseman (born 1983)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 Encarnación mean?
- Recorded meaning: Alude a la Encarnación de Jesús en su madre María
- How do you pronounce Encarnación?
- A machine transcription gives /eŋkarnasjon/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Encarnación have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 100 thousand people named Encarnación, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled encarnacion.
- Where is Encarnación most common?
- Encarnación is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 502 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Encarnación?
- In Spain, the national register counted 99,567 people named Encarnación, about 1 in 502 residents.
- How common is Encarnación compared with other names?
- In Spain, Encarnación is the 149th 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/encarnaci%C3%B3nThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Encarnación” — the 149th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.