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Asta

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Faroe Islands Faroese
Greenland Greenlandic
Iceland Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Younger form of Ásta [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

2) Short form of Augusta [1] [5] [6] [7]

3) Short form of Anastasia [7]

Related Names

Asta ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Swedish
Aste ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Old Swedish Swedish

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Astuson Faroe Islands
Östuson Iceland

Female

Astudóttir Faroe Islands
Östudóttir Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Asta
Genitive: Astas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Asta
Accusative: Astu
Dative: Astu
Genitive: Astu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Asta
Genitive: Astan
Partitive: Astaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Asta
Accusative: Östu
Dative: Östu
Genitive: Östu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Asta
Genitive: Astas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Asta
Genitive: Astas

Name Days

Finland Finland

30 July

Norway Norway

13 April

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

30 July

Sweden Sweden

27 November

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Asta was a heavy storm in Finland in July 2010.

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[12]
2789 5784 2789 5784 0 0
Denmark Denmark[11]
5230
n.a.
 5229
n.a.
 1
n.a.
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
 6296
n.a.
 6296 0 0
Greenland Greenland[14]
17 66
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[15]
16 17
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[16]
718
n.a.
 718
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Asta (f) Sources: [12][11][16][13]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Asta (f) Sources: [17]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Asta (f)


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
  8. ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
  9. ↑ Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  10. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  15. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  17. ↑ details see Name Statistic tables
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