Ascencion

given name · Latin script

Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree

  • United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
  • Venezuela (asosab): listed as female

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

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

Ascencion is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Ascención. This surname is predominantly found in Mexico.

rarermore common
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
  • VEVenezuela1 in 20K
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 20K

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.

United States (measured from records)

1,520 people, 2020

Record sources
142 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)

El Salvador, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Borrowed from Spanish Ascención. This surname is predominantly found in Mexico.

Cited for this meaning 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Ascencion 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 Ascencion is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1,5201 in 219K1.2KAscencion142
VE Venezuela—1,4281 in 20K1.4KAscencion15
PE Peru—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 29K—Ascencion25
AR Argentina—≈960 est.≈1 in 47K48Ascencion31
SV El Salvador#720≈490 est.≈1 in 13K—Ascencion8
PY Paraguay#918≈360 est.≈1 in 20K—Ascencion6
NI Nicaragua#600≈230 est.≈1 in 27K—Ascencion6
MX Mexico#501——108Ascencion84

1,520 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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)

Ascencion is also recorded as 5 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, United Kingdom, Canada, Philippines

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ascención

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ascención

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium

    Also written Ascençion

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru

    Also written Ascención

  • Arabic given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, Saudi Arabia

    Also written Ascención

36 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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)

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)

26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Ascencion
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010579#38,265
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020493#46,548
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000296#63,141
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—108#1,714
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—48—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Ascencion mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Spanish Ascención. This surname is predominantly found in Mexico. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Ascencion?
A machine transcription gives /asθenθjon/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Ascencion a male or female name?
Ascencion is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; Venezuela (asosab): listed as female. We don't publish a percentage split.
In which country does Ascencion have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Ascencion, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ascencion.
How common is the name Ascencion?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,520 people named Ascencion in 2020, about 1 in 219 thousand residents.
How common is Ascencion compared with other names?
In Mexico, Ascencion is the 501st most common given name of 193,485 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, “Ascencion” — the 501st most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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