Given name
Asunción
Asunción is used as a given name. One Spanish interpretation is “refers to the Virgin Mary's assumption into heaven.”
Original SpanishAsun
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Spanish interpretation is “refers to the Virgin Mary's assumption into heaven.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Spanish.
How it developed
From Latin assūmptiō, built from Latin assūmō + -tiō.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Asunción’s family of names
Asunción has a short form in Asun. In Spanish usage, Asunción has a later derivative in ASUNCION. Asunción has a conventional naming counterpart in Aisone.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
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.
People named Asunción
- Susi SánchezSpanish actressborn 1955
- Asunción LinaresSpanish paleontologist1921–2005
- Asunción Gómez PérezSpanish researcherborn 1967
- Asunción AcostaCuban sprinterborn 1954
- Asunción DomenechSpanish volleyball playerborn 1967
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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