Given name & surname
Encarnacion
“refers to the Incarnation festival”
Encarnacion is used as a given name and a surname. One Spanish interpretation is “refers to the Incarnation festival.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Spanish interpretation is “refers to the Incarnation festival.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Spanish.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1892. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Encarnacion through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 983
- 851 boys · 132 girls
- Most popular year
- 1928
- 35 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,874 as a first name in 2020; 7,999 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Encarnacion’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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