Asun
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A Yoruba dish made from roasted goat meat sautéed in spicy peppers and other vegetables
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/asun/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Asun is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 704K(measured from records)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 474K
- FIFinland≈1 in 556K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 474K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A Yoruba dish made from roasted goat meat sautéed in spicy peppers and other vegetables.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Asun 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Asun | 9 |
| ES Spain | #735 | 71 | 1 in 704K | 76 | Asun | 105 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 474K | — | Asun | 8 |
| US United States | — | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 7.1M | 5 | Asun | 25 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | listed | Asun | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 556K | — | Asun | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Asun | 1 |
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 — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); the il-grande-libro-nomi-bebe-2020 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)
Asun is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Yoruba, something that is roasted; (in particular) roasted goat meat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, nettle (stinging herb of genus Urtica)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, genitive singular of asu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mpm, delicious
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rup, to sound
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)
- José Asunción Floresb. 1904PYnot in their usual nameParaguayan composer (1904–1972)
- Elsa O'Connorb. 1906ARnot in their usual nameArgentinian actor (1906–1947)
- Asunción Cruañes Molinab. 1925ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician (1925-2012)
- Asunción Sanchob. 1930ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress
- Asunción Valdésb. 1950ESnot in their usual nameSpanish journalist
- Susi Sánchezb. 1955ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress
- María Asunción Aramburuzabalab. 1963MXnot in their usual nameMexican businesswoman, heiress, billionaire
- Maruchi Leónb. 1965ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress
- Asunción Gómez Pérezb. 1967ESnot in their usual nameSpanish researcher
- Sunny Hostinb. 1968USnot in their usual nameAmerican lawyer, journalist, and television host
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 72 | #9,118 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 71 | #20,767 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 5 | — |
| IT Italy | Il Grande Libro dei Nomi per Bebè (2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
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 Asun mean, and where does it come from?
- A Yoruba dish made from roasted goat meat sautéed in spicy peppers and other vegetables. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Asun?
- A machine transcription gives /asun/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Asun a male or female name?
- Asun 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 are other forms of the name Asun?
- In the etymology graph, Assunta, Assumpta and Assumpció are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Asun have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 115 people named Asun in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled asun.
- How common is the name Asun?
- In Spain, the national register counted 71 people named Asun, about 1 in 704 thousand residents.
- How common is Asun compared with other names?
- In Spain, Asun is the 735th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/asunThe 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, “Asun” — the 735th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.