Nordic Names

Nordic Names

Asha

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Origin and Meaning

1) English spelling of Sanskrit आशा (asha/ashaa) = 'hope, desire, a region, ray, promise, prospect, trust' [1] [2]

2) Swahili form of Aisha

Related Names

Asha ♀
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Sanskrit/Swahili

Further Information

Asha is a very common name among immigrants from India and Africa, but is very rarely used in the Nordic countries by people without an immigration background

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[3]
631 708 631 705 0 3
Denmark Denmark[4]
163
n.a.
 162
n.a.
 1
n.a.
Finland Finland[5]
n.a.
 141
n.a.
 141 0 0
Greenland Greenland[6]
0 26
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[7]
254
n.a.
 254
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[8]
0 1
n.a.
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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Asha.


References

  1. ↑ Mandeep Kaur Dimpy: Sikh Baby Names (1999)
  2. ↑ Ramesh Chander Dogra/Urmila Dogra: Thought Provoking Sikh Names (2002)
  3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  5. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  6. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  8. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
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