Asser

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

1) Variant form of Assar (see *AndswaruR) ^{[1] [2] [3]}

2) Variant form of Aser ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

Ascer	♂
Ascerus	♂
Asse	♂
Asser	♂
Asseri	♂

See also Asseus

Name Day

Finland

5 February

Further Information

Predominant Regional Usage

Norway: Vestlandet ^[2]

Namesakes

Asser (or Ascer), 1089-1137, Bishop of Lund from 1089, first Archbishop of Lund from 1104 until his death

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Denmark[4]		0	n.a.	72	n.a
Sweden[5]		1	1	29	126
Norway[6]		0	0	4	6
Finland[7]		n.a.	1	n.a	3935
#: 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 Asser.

Sources: ^{[5] [4] [6] [7]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
3. ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi