Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
How it developed
From Latin Ascanius, from Ancient Greek Ἀσκάνιος.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
In mythological stories, Ascanius is associated with the son of Aeneas.
Ascanius’s family of names
In Latin usage, Ascanius has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form ASCANIO. Ascanius has a related form in Ascanios. Ascanius has a related form in Ascanious.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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