Concepcion

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Concepción in SV El Salvador, CL Chile, DO Dominican Republic and 3 more.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Concepcion is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name23K records spelled Concepcion8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, United Kingdom, Spain

  Also written Concepción, Concepćion, Concepciòn, Concepciôn, Concepcíon

68 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●

Concepcion is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, city. Chile; dept., Paraguay; pers.

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In English, David Ismael, US baseball player

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 134 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Concepcion Aguilab. 1894PHFilipina educator and lawyer
• Concepción Calvillo Alonsob. 1917MXMexican activist and politician
• Concepcion Hernandez Diazb. 1972ESSpanish goalball player
• Concepcion Moreno Alfarob. 2000ESSpanish politician
• Consuelo GilESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician
• Concepcion Lopez BlancoESSpanish politician
• Concepcion Guerra DelgadoESSpanish politician
• Concepción Sevilla LanaESSpanish politician
• Mildred Ávila VeraMXnot in their usual nameMexican politician

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 750 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Concepcion?

We estimate roughly 206 thousand people bear Concepcion (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Concepcion have the most bearers?

Concepcion is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled concepcion.

Where is Concepcion most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Concepcion is densest in Paraguay — about 1 in 110 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.

How common is Concepcion compared with other names?

In Mexico, Concepcion is the 98th most common given name of 191,605 given names recorded there.

Is Concepcion a male or female name?

Concepcion 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 Concepcion mean?

Recorded meaning: Marian name commemorating the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.