Assunta
Feminine · “taken up”
Assunta names an event rather than a person. It is the Italian word for the woman taken up, used as a name for the feast of the Assumption and then for girls born near it, and the feast itself sits on a date that was a public holiday for a very long time before the church got to it.
How old is the name Assunta?
Assunta first appears in US birth records in 1895 — 130 years ago. The typical Assunta alive today was born around 1925, making them about 100 years old. About 400 people named Assunta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Assunta most popular?
Assunta peaked in 1912, reaching #868 nationally. See the whole 1912 chart.
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Where it comes from
From A Latin participle meaning taken up to Assunta
The story of Assunta
The date belonged to an emperor first. Augustus established a holiday in the middle of August, a rest period after the harvest that took his own name, and Italians still call the fifteenth of August by a worn-down version of that Latin phrase. The Christian feast attached itself to the same date some centuries later. What survives is a genuinely odd compound: a national holiday named after a Roman emperor, marking a Marian feast, on which nothing in Italy is open and half the country is at the sea. The Assumption itself was an ancient belief and an old feast but became formal doctrine only in 1950, which makes it the most recently defined thing in this name by about fifteen hundred years.
Meaning
taken up
A Latin past participle, feminine, meaning taken up or assumed, and the reading is settled. It names a doctrine rather than a quality: the belief that Mary was taken bodily into heaven at the end of her life. As a personal name it is an Italian devotional formation of exactly the kind Italian makes freely.
How the name formed
- A Latin participle meaning taken up
- The name of a feast on an old Roman holiday
- An Italian devotional name for girls
- Carried to America by Italian families
Related forms: Assunta · Asunción · Assunção
Pronouncing Assunta
ah-SOON-tah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The doubled s is genuinely longer in Italian than a single one would be, a distinction Italian uses to tell words apart and English does not have at all.
Nicknames for Assunta
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1895
- Most girls named
- 191652 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #868reached in 1912
- Change vs 1987
- −14.3%6 in 1995, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Assunta in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Assunta in Italian — same name
- Asunción in Spanish — related form
- Assunção in Portuguese — related form
Assuntas among us
people named Assunta are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
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Fashion outlook
Assunta sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is used unchanged in Italy and understood across the Romance languages.
- The meaning is exact and can be given in two words.
- The rhythm is firm and the name is easy to say correctly.
- The doubled s is inaudible to English speakers and will be dropped.
- It is unmistakably devotional, which is a decision as much as a name.
- It is very rare in American use and will need spelling out.
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- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 400 people named Assunta are estimated to be alive in the US today.
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- Assunta is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Assunta will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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