# Assunção (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/assuncao/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 202 |
| US rank (2010) | 91,221 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 1,528,443 people |
| Change since 2000 | +54% (131 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Assunção in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 87% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 4.5% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 3.5% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Assunção in Brazil.

## People named Assunção

- Paulo Assunção, Brazilian player
- Fábio Assunção, Brazilian actor
- Marcos Assunção, Brazilian footballer
- Raphael Assunção, Brazilian martial artist

## Similar surnames

Asuncion, Asencio, Akins, Ascencio, Aikens, Aguinaga, Askins, Asmus, Ausmus, Ashkenazi.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.