Entry № 3007 · Spanish origin

Encarnación Encarnación — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ en-kar-nah-SYOHN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Incarnation (Marian devotion)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "incarnation (marian devotion)".

Encarnación is the Spanish word for "incarnation" — referring to the Incarnation of Christ in the Virgin Mary. A traditional Spanish Marian feminine name.

Encarnación is widely used in Spain and Latin America.

Incarnation. The Spanish Marian.

The name in its native script.

Encarnación
Transliteration
Encarnación
Pronunciation
/ ˌɛn.kɑːr.nəˈsjoʊn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Encarnación stands.

Encarnación does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Encarnacións before her.

Real people

In fiction
Encarnación
Common in Spanish fiction.

Names connected to Encarnación.

The number behind Encarnación.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Encarnación reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.