Ascensión is a girl's name of Spanish origin meaning “Ascension (of Jesus to heaven.” It is a rare choice in US records.
Ascensión at a glance
Gender
Girl name
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
“Ascension (of Jesus to heaven”
About the name Ascensión
Ascensión belongs to the Spanish tradition. Its meaning — “Ascension (of Jesus to heaven” — is the sense carried by its Spanish roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Ascensión first appears in Social Security records in 1918. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #2701 in 1930, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 52 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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