Is Encarnacion a male or female name?
Encarnacion is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in Spain at 100% and male usage in United States at 87%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 99%
- Sample size
- 101,070
- Confidence
- high
Encarnacion by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spain ES | female | 100% | 99,567 | ine |
| United States US | male | 87% | 983 | ssa |
| France FR | female | 100% | 410 | insee |
| Switzerland CH | female | 100% | 107 | bfs |
| Poland PL | female | 100% | 3 | pesel |
Attested in 8 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AU · BE · CH · ES · FR · PL · SE · US
Encarnacion over time
In the United States, 31.4% of the babies named Encarnacion in the 1910s were girls, against 0% in the 1950s. In France, 100% of the babies named Encarnacion in the 1960s were girls.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 31% | 118 | — | |
| 1920s | 27% | 266 | — | |
| 1930s | 16% | 154 | — | |
| 1940s | 0% | 126 | — | |
| 1950s | 0% | 104 | — | |
| 1960s | — | 100% | 225 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Encarnacion with a country
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curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Encarnacion&country=ES" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Encarnacion
Is Encarnacion a male or female name?
Encarnacion is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in Spain at 100% and male usage in United States at 87%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Encarnacion change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Encarnacion identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.