Assunta
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Italian: feminine singular of assunto
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/asːunta/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Assunta is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 155K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 41K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Italian form of the Assumption, from Latin assumptio 'taking up'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Assunta is read(measured from records)
Assunta is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Italian41%
feminine singular of assunto
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English28%
Italian; from the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- Portuguese13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Assunta in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Assunta counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 26 | Assunta | 38 |
| BR Brazil | 1,362 | 1 in 155K | 2.2K | Assunta | 43 |
| US United States | 1,220 | 1 in 273K | 1.2K | Assunta | 40 |
| FR France | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 137K | 220 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 199K | listed | Assunta | 11 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Assunta | 7 |
| UY Uruguay | 25 | 1 in 136K | 25 | Assunta | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); the hanks-first-names-2001 register; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Assunta is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Italian form of the Assumption, from Latin assumptio 'taking up'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Marian name, from a title of the Virgin Mary, Maria Assunta, referring to her assumption into heaven.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In French, Forme italienne d’Assomption; du latin assumptio, « qui prend ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In German, im 20. Jh. aus dem Italienischen übernommener weibl. Vom. (»die [in den
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tina Modottib. 1896ITnot in their usual nameItalian photographer, activist and actress (1896–1942)
- Assunta Almiranteb. 1921ITWidow of Giorgio Almirante (1921–2022)
- Lina Wertmüllerb. 1928ITnot in their usual nameItalian film writer and director (1928-2021)
- Pupetta Marescab. 1935ITnot in their usual nameItalian criminal (1935–2021)
- Princess Nora, Marchioness of Mariñob. 1950LInot in their usual nameLiechtensteiner Princier
- Assunta Melonib. 1951SMCaptain Regent of San Marino
- Rosanna Costab. 1957CLnot in their usual nameChilean economist
- Assunta Legnanteb. 1978ITItalian Olympic and paralympic shot putter
- Assunta De Rossib. 1981ITFilipino actress
- Assunta Scuttob. 2002ITItalian judoka
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 2.2K | #2,590 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2.2K | #5,679 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.4K | #6,708 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 1.3K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #10,775 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 1.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 684 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 409 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 400 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 284 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1930 | 261 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Assunta come from?
- Italian form of the Assumption, from Latin assumptio 'taking up'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What are other forms of the name Assunta?
- In the etymology graph, Asun, Assumpta and Assumpció are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Assunta?
- A machine transcription gives /asːunta/ (IPA) for Italian.
- Is Assunta a male or female name?
- Assunta is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Assunta mean?
- In Italian, feminine singular of assunto
- In which country does Assunta have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Assunta in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled assunta.
- How common is the name Assunta?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,362 people named Assunta in 2022, about 1 in 155 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Assunta?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/assuntaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Assunta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.