Encarnacion

given name · Latin script

Meaning: someone who was born on Christmas Day, celebrated as ig8 Engelbert Eppstein See also Angel

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

Encarnacion is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • 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)

99,567 people

Sources
269 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 502 (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

someone who was born on Christmas Day, celebrated as ig8 Engelbert Eppstein See also Angel. 3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from the Ger. vocab. word Engel angel (see 2). Enlund see Ehn Dims, (of i): Low Ger.: Engleke, Eng(e)lmann. Fris.: Engesma. Ennion see Onion Patrs. (from i): Ger.: Engels, Engler, Engling. Flem.: Engels, Ingels, Engelen. Du.: Engels. (From 3): Jewish (E Ashkenazic)!

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Encarnacion 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 Encarnacion is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#14999,5671 in 502107KEncarnacion133
PH Philippines—≈13,000 est.≈1 in 8.5KlistedEncarnacion71
PE Peru#650≈4,100 est.≈1 in 7.8K—Encarnacion43
VE Venezuela#4014,0761 in 7K4.1KEncarnacion17
AR Argentina#703≈3,900 est.≈1 in 12K323Encarnacion34
SV El Salvador#591≈750 est.≈1 in 8.6K—Encarnacion7

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). 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)

Encarnacion 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 Encarnación, Encarnacioñ, Encarnaciòn

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Encarnaciòn, Encarnación

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Philippines, Spain, Indonesia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Encarnación

  • Swahili given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Philippines, Peru

    Also written Encarnación

  • Arabic given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Egypt, Philippines

    Also written Encarnación

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Peru, Philippines

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Encarnación

58 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)

Encarnacion 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.

  • In Spanish, someone who was born on Christmas Day, celebrated as the feast of the Incarnation of Christ (L incamatio, from incamare to make flesh, a deriv. of caro, gen. camis, flesh). Cogn.: Port.: Encarna^ao.

    as a nameA dictionary of surnames

  • Religious name commemorating the festival of the Incarnation, celebrated on Christmas Day.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Cebuano, a Christian surname from Spanish, the 261st most common surname 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)

175018001850190019502000Josefa Camejo, b. 1791Encarnación Ezcurra, b. 1795Encarnacion A. Alzona, b. 1895La Argentinita, b. 1898Encarna Sánchez, b. 1935Encarnita Polo, b. 1939Encarnación Redondo Jiménez, b. 1944Regine Velasquez, b. 1970Encarna Granados, b. 1972Nani Gaitan, b. 1976

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 51 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Encarnacion
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—107K#44
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—100K#96
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—4.1K#417
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—36#16,703
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)20232#4,387
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)20112—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)20112—

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

Where does the name Encarnacion come from?
someone who was born on Christmas Day, celebrated as ig8 Engelbert Eppstein See also Angel. 3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from the Ger. vocab. word Engel angel (see 2). Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
Is Encarnacion a male or female name?
Encarnacion 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.
What does the name Encarnacion mean?
Recorded meaning: someone who was born on Christmas Day, celebrated as ig8 Engelbert Eppstein See also Angel.
In which country does Encarnacion have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 100 thousand people named Encarnacion, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled encarnacion.
Where is Encarnacion most common?
Encarnacion is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 502 people carrying it.
How common is the name Encarnacion?
In Spain, the national register counted 99,567 people named Encarnacion, about 1 in 502 residents.
How common is Encarnacion compared with other names?
In Spain, Encarnacion is the 149th 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, “Encarnacion” — the 149th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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