Asusena
Feminine · “Madonna lily”
Asusena writes with an s a Spanish flower word that Spanish writes with a z, and in most of the Spanish-speaking world the two letters say exactly the same thing. The flower itself has a name that traveled a very long way to reach Spain.
How old is the name Asusena?
Asusena first appears in US birth records in 1973 — 52 years ago. The typical Asusena alive today was born around 1994, making them about 31 years old. About 700 people named Asusena are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Asusena most popular?
Asusena peaked in 2001, reaching #2663 nationally. See the whole 2001 chart.
Where it comes from
From as-susana to Asusena
The story of Asusena
The Spanish word for the white lily is a loan from Arabic, taken during the eight centuries when much of the peninsula spoke it, and the Arabic word belongs to a family that runs across the whole ancient Near East — the same root that gives Hebrew its word for a lily, and behind that, quite probably, an Egyptian word for a lotus. Spanish took several hundred plant words the same way, along with the irrigation vocabulary that made the gardens possible: acequia, alberca, noria, azahar. The z in the standard spelling is said as an s across Latin America and in southern Spain, so the respelling here records an ordinary pronunciation rather than a mistake. The flower it names is not a European plant, which is worth knowing given how much European religious painting it appears in.
Meaning
Madonna lily
The Spanish word names the tall white lily of religious painting. It came into Spanish from Arabic, and the Arabic word is a relative of the Hebrew one that gave Europe the name Susanna — so the flower name and that name are cousins arriving by different roads.
How the name formed
- as-susana
- azucena
- Asusena
Related forms: Azucena
Pronouncing Asusena
ah-soo-SEH-nah
Four syllables with the stress on the third, which is where Spanish puts it for a word ending in a vowel. The s and the z in the two spellings are identical in most Spanish-speaking regions.
Nicknames for Asusena
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
- 1973
- Most girls named
- 200156 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2663reached in 2001
- Change vs 2010
- 0.0%7 in 2012, 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.
Asusena in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Azucena in Spanish — same name
Asusenas among us
people named Asusena 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
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Asusena 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
- Every syllable is open, which makes it easy to say in Spanish or English.
- The meaning is a real flower with a documented and interesting descent.
- Susi detaches cleanly and is used across the Spanish-speaking world.
- Azucena is the standard Spanish spelling and will be written for it.
- Four syllables is long for forms designed around shorter names.
- The s spelling will look like an error to readers from central and northern Spain.
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- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Asusena are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Asusena in 2025?
- Asusena is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Asusena will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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