Asunción is a girl's name of Spanish origin meaning “Assumption.” It is a rare choice in US records.
Asunción at a glance
Gender
Girl name
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
“Assumption”
Pronunciation
/əˌsuːnsiˈɒn/
About the name Asunción
Asunción belongs to the Spanish tradition. Its meaning — “Assumption” — 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, Asunción first appears in Social Security records in 1913. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #2565 in 1913, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 122 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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