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Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Åse m for the male version.
Usage
Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Norwegian form of Åsa [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Related Names
See Ása
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Åse
|
Genitive: |
Åses
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Åse
|
Genitive: |
Åsen
|
Partitive: |
Åsea
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Åse
|
Genitive: |
Åses
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Åse
|
Genitive: |
Åses
|
Name Day
Norway
|
2 May
|
Further Information
Pronunciation
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Åse Gruda Skard (2 December 1905 – 13 August 1985), Norwegian psychologist
- Åse Hiorth Lervik (2 June 1933 – 3 November 1997), Norwegian literary researcher
- Åse Maria Kleveland (born 18 March 1949), Norwegian singer and politician
Trivia
- Sweden: In January 1973, 2,283 people were named Åse f (percentage of first or only given name: 86 %) [10]
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[11] |
|
1920 |
3427 |
1918 |
3416 |
2 |
11 |
Denmark[12] |
|
639 |
n.a. |
639 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Greenland[13] |
|
7 |
22 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Finland[14] |
|
n.a. |
31 |
n.a. |
27 |
n.a. |
4 |
Norway[15] |
|
9562 |
n.a. |
9562 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
#: count of main first name only |
&: count of both main and additional first names |
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
Statistics as female name
Recent statistics trend[11][12][15][14]:
Sources: [11] [12] [15] [14]
Norwegian historic statistics trend[15]:
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ Per Hedelin: Norstedts svenska uttalslexikon (1997)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no