girls:
110 births since 1903
#5606 (2nd percentile)
boys:
379 births since 1912
#4207 (8th percentile)
overall:
489 births since 1903
#7250 (6th percentile)
The name Asencion is the #7,250 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 489 recorded births since 1903. This represents the 6.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,207 (8.2% percentile) for all time with 379 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,606 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 110 births since 1903.
Asencion first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1903 (1903 for girls and 1912 for boys). Birth data for Asencion is available in 52 out of the 105 years between 1903 and 2007 (49 years for boys and 16 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Asencion has been given predominantly to boys, with 77.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2007, 100.0% of babies named Asencion were boys. Interestingly, until around 1912, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1903 to 1911), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (78.3% boys from 1912 to 2007).
For boys, Asencion reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #542) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1924, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2007.
For girls, Asencion reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #605) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 18 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1938.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Asencion".
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Our model is 64.9% confident that Asencion is pronounced as uh-SEHN-shuhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-SEHN-see-uhn, at 18.9% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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