Asta

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Faroese

Origin and Meaning

1) Modern form of Ásta ^{[1] [2] [3]}

2) Short form of Augusta ^[1]

Related Names

Asta	♀
Aste	♂

Name Days

Finland

30 July

Norway

13 April

Finland (Swedish Language)

30 July

Sweden

27 November

Grammar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Asta
Accusative:	Astu
Dative:	Astu
Genitive:	Astu

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1834 ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[4]		4887	7752	0	0
Denmark[5]		4347	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[6]		433	906	0	0
Finland[7]		n.a.	6026	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.

 

Recent statistics trend^[4][5][6][7]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[6]:

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

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
3. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
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. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi