Asen

given name · Bulgarian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Asen is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bulgaria, where it is the 81st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Bulgarian and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: The Hebrew name Hashum (חָשֻׁם) is understood to mean "rich," "wealthy," or "enriched".

rarermore common
  • BGBulgaria1 in 1.9K◐
  • ESSpain1 in 220K
  • ETEthiopia1 in 11K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈573 ●

across 7 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
111 ●

12K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 22K ◐

North Macedonia

Spellings & scripts●

AsenLatin · Bulgarian●15K records
АсенCyrillic · Bulgarian●9.5K records
አሰንEthiopic · Amharic●245 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Асен in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, MK North Macedonia and 1 more, Assen in DZ Algeria, TN Tunisia, EG Egypt, Åsen in NO Norway and አሰን in ET Ethiopia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

The Hebrew name Hashum (חָשֻׁם) is understood to mean "rich," "wealthy," or "enriched".

Sources 1

  • Biblical Names Compiled Database

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Asen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BG Bulgaria#8122,4556.6K rec.——Asen111
US United States—3541.2K rec.—172Asen73
GB United Kingdom—334249 rec.—listedAsen40
ET Ethiopia—304197 rec.——አሰን8
DZ Algeria—27911 rec.——Assen2
NL Netherlands—267403 rec.—639Asen38
ES Spain—227955 rec.1 in 220K255Asen39
RU Russia—215190 rec.——Асен28
PL Poland—134△14 rec.1 in 286K134Asen16
AR Argentina—133814 rec.—123Asen26
IT Italy—100117 rec.——Asen10
TN Tunisia—1005 rec.——Assen7

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Bulgarian15K61%
  • Spanish1.6K7%
  • French1.4K6%
  • German1.1K5%
  • English8253%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Bulgarian14,66361%
Spanish1,5927%
French1,3956%
German1,1385%
English8253%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Asen is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name5.0K records spelled Asen11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Nigeria, United Kingdom

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Åsen, Åsén, Asén

  • French given name1.9K records spelled Asen4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Åsen, Åsén

  • Norwegian Bokmål surname1.5K records spelled Asen36 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, Denmark, Canada

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Aasen, Åsen, Аасен, Åsén, Aasén

  • Turkish surname861 records spelled Asen8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Netherlands, India

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Örenli, Aşen, Orenli

  • Hindi given name722 records spelled Asen5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Åsen, Åsén

  • a separate given name592 records spelled Asen7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Ethiopia, United States, Norway

    Also written Åsen, Åsén, Ašen, šen, Asěn

  • Indonesian given name435 records spelled Asen5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, India, Netherlands, Sweden

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Åsén, Åsen

  • Arabic given name267 records spelled Asen11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Netherlands, Syria, Saudi Arabia

    Also written Àsen, Asèn, Ãsēn, Ãsèn, Âsên

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Asen is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, from Germanic *ans- 'god'; cf. ON áss, OHG ans

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In German, from Old Norse áss/ássar 'gods, divine beings'

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In Akan, a country of the Gold Coast, having Pante in the south, Wasa and Twiforo in the west, Adanse (a province of Asante) in the north, Akem in the east

    as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)

  • In Swedish, definite singular of as c (“one of the Æsir (Old Norse gods)”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Danish, Used as a mild insult to or about a person whom one envies or harbors a certain dislike for.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Over time●

051015202015202016 · 2018

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Asen in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 2012–2020
Yearrecords
201210
201312
201412
201512
201612
201715
201816
201916
202015

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 9 years between 2012–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Asen Zlatarov, b. 1885Asen Toshev, b. 1893Assen Razcvetnikov, b. 1897Assen Bossev, b. 1913Asen Hadjiolov, b. 1930Asen Kisimov, b. 1936Asen Blatechki, b. 1971Asen Karaslavov, b. 1980Asen Chalakov, b. 1983

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 40 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Asen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—255#3,447
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—227#8,188
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020172#109,465
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010169#105,600
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000148#110,523
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026134#1,696
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—130#1,635
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—123—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—120#55,146
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—56#7,355
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—36#14,483
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—35—

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 116 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Asen?
We estimate roughly 573 people bear Asen (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Asen have the most bearers?
Asen is most frequently recorded in Bulgaria, where it is most often spelled asen.
How common is Asen compared with other names?
In Bulgaria, Asen is the 81st most common given name of 20,382 given names recorded there.
Is Asen a male or female name?
Asen is a male 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 Asen mean?
Recorded meaning: The Hebrew name Hashum (חָשֻׁם) is understood to mean "rich," "wealthy," or "enriched".
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Asen” — the 81st most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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