Asencion — boys' name

What the Data Says About Asencion

The Social Security Administration has registered 379 babies named Asencion between 1912 and 2007, spanning 96 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Asencion currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2007. The name reached its historical peak in 1924, when 17 babies received it in a single year. Asencion is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 110 additional births since 1903.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Asencion performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 94 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Asencion shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 192 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Asencion in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Asencion in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 379 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.