Entry № 1020 · Spanish origin

Asunción Asunción — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-soon-SYOHN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Assumption (of the Virgin Mary)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "assumption (of the virgin mary)".

Asunción is the Spanish word for "assumption" — the Assumption of the Virgin Mary into heaven, the Catholic feast on August 15.

Asunción is widely used in Spain and Latin America.

Assumption. The Spanish Marian, capital of Paraguay.

The name in its native script.

Asunción
Transliteration
Asunción
Pronunciation
/ ˌɑː.suːnˈsjoʊn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Asunción stands.

Asunción does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Asuncións before her.

Real people
Asunción Balaguer
Spanish actress.
1925 – 2019
In fiction
Asunción
Common in Spanish fiction.

Names connected to Asunción.

The number behind Asunción.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Asunción reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.