Âss

given name · Latin script

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

Âss is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: John Asinus 1202 Cur; John Asse 1248 FFK; Thomas Arsse brother of John Asse 1379 PTY. A nickname from the ass, Lat asinus, OE assa.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
  • MAMorocco≈1 in 5M

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)

43 people

Sources
69 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ass in US United States, CA Canada, AU Australia and Åss in MA Morocco.

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)

John Asinus 1202 Cur; John Asse 1248 FFK; Thomas Arsse brother of John Asse 1379 PTY. A nickname from the ass, Lat asinus, OE assa.

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Âss 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 Âss is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain431 in 1.2M43—4
MA Morocco≈7 est.≈1 in 5M—Åss2
US United States———Ass69
CA Canada———Ass23
AU Australia———Ass12

43 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). 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)

Âss is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name18 spellings in the group

    Also written Åss, Àss, Úš, Āşš, Úś

  • French surname32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Canada, Tunisia, Belgium

    Also written Ass, Àss, Áss, Äss, Åšş

4 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 Âss 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 Âss mean, and where does it come from?
John Asinus 1202 Cur; John Asse 1248 FFK; Thomas Arsse brother of John Asse 1379 PTY. A nickname from the ass, Lat asinus, OE assa. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
Is Âss a male or female name?
Âss is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Âss have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 43 people named Âss, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Âss most common?
Âss is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Âss?
In Spain, the national register counted 43 people named Âss, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.

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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A2ss

The 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, “Âss”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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