Ascenção Surname
Approximately 941 people bear this surname
Ascenção Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 651 | 1:16,003 | 1,184 |
| Cape Verde | 180 | 1:2,942 | 138 |
| Brazil | 44 | 1:4,865,326 | 126,089 |
| Venezuela | 10 | 1:3,020,408 | 31,795 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 10 | 1:17,742 | 994 |
| Angola | 9 | 1:2,998,802 | 4,903 |
| Mozambique | 9 | 1:3,029,063 | 2,946 |
| South Africa | 7 | 1:7,739,672 | 177,858 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| France | 4 | 1:16,605,680 | 368,153 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| Argentina | 2 | 1:21,371,707 | 253,176 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Macau | 1 | 1:601,630 | 1,582 |
| Australia | 1 | 1:26,995,701 | 270,794 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
The alternate forms: Ascencão (5) & Asçenção (1) are calculated separately.
Ascenção (12) may also be a first name.
Ascenção Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Ascenção Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Ascenção occurs most in Portugal. It can also be rendered as: Ascencão or Asçenção. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Ascenção? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 379,286th most frequently used family name throughout the world, held by approximately 1 in 7,744,470 people. This surname occurs mostly in Europe, where 70 percent of Ascenção live; 69 percent live in Southwestern Europe and 69 percent live in Iberian Europe. It is also the 3,306,491st most common first name throughout the world It is held by 12 people.
This surname is most prevalent in Portugal, where it is borne by 651 people, or 1 in 16,003. Barring Portugal it exists in 17 countries. It is also found in Cape Verde, where 19 percent live and Brazil, where 5 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ascencão | 96 | 5 | / |
| Asçenção | 96 | 1 | / |
| Acenção | 93 | 1 | / |
| Asenção | 93 | 1 | / |
| D'ascenção | 89 | 2 | / |
| Ascensão | 88 | 3,220 | / |
| Assenção | 88 | 19 | / |
| Asensão | 80 | 1 | / |
| Ascension | 71 | 558 | / |
| Ascenza | 67 | 14 | / |
| Asenson | 67 | 4 | / |
| Ascensione | 67 | 2 | / |
| D'asuunção | 67 | 1 | / |
| Ascensionn | 67 | 1 | / |
| Ascencu | 67 | 1 | / |
| Asenzoa | 67 | 1 | / |
| Asensoy | 67 | 1 | / |
| Asscension | 67 | 1 | / |
| Ascensa | 67 | 1 | / |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Ascenção
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