Ásta

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Female Name

Usage

Old Norse
Faroese
Icelandic
Sami

Origin and Meaning

Old Norse name, short form of names beginning with Ást- (see name element AS), especially Ástríðr ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Related Names

Asta	♀
Ásta	♀
Ástá	♀
Åsta	♀
Aasta	♀
Åste	♀

See also Ásti (male form)

Name Day

Sami

30 July

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Ásta
Accusative:	Ástu
Dative:	Ástu
Genitive:	Ástu

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Ásta
Accusative:	Ástu
Dative:	Ástu
Genitive:	Ástu

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Iceland: 12th or 13th century ^[4]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[5]		22	n.a.	0	n.a
Sweden[6]		5	7	0	0
Finland[7]		n.a.	2	n.a	2
#: 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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Ásta.

Sources: ^{[6] [5] [8] [7]}

References

1. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
4. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
8. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no