Åste m

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Male Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Åste f for the female version of this name.

Usage

Old Swedish
Norwegian
Swedish

Origin and Meaning

Norwegian modern form and Old Swedish dialectal form of Ásti ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

See Ásti

Name Day

Norway

28 March

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 17th century ^[1]

Predominant Regional Usage

Sweden: Värend ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[3]		89	142	0	0
Sweden[4]		1	1	0	0
Denmark[5]		0	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[6]		0	0	0	0
#: 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 Åste.

Sources: ^{[4] [5] [3] [6]}

References

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