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) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Ascencion is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Ascención. This surname is predominantly found in Mexico.
- MXMexico≈1 in 6.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 13K
- PYParaguay≈1 in 18K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mexico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #501 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | 108 | Ascencion | 84 |
| US United States | — | 1,520 | 1 in 219K | 1.2K | Ascencion | 142 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 1,428 | 1 in 20K | 1.4K | Ascencion | 15 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Ascencion | 25 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 48 | Ascencion | 31 |
| SV El Salvador | #720 | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Ascencion | 8 |
| PY Paraguay | #918 | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Ascencion | 6 |
| NI Nicaragua | #600 | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Ascencion | 6 |
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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Djuric Ascencionb. 1985NLDutch association football player
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
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?
- In Spanish /asθenθjon/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Ascencion?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Ascencion in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ascencion. After it come United States, Venezuela, Peru and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ascencionThe 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, “Ascencion” — the 501st most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.