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Origin and Meaning
1) New name derived from the continent of Asia [1] [2]. The name of the continent may represent Assyrian asū = 'to rise', meaning 'land of the rising sun' or Sanskrit usā = 'dawn' [3]
2) Variant spelling of the Arabic name Asiya [4]
Related Names
| Asia | ♀ |   |
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| Asía | ♀ |   |
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| Asya | ♀ |
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Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Asia |
| Genitive: | Asias |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Asia |
| Genitive: | Asian |
| Partitive: | Asiaa |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Asia |
| Genitive: | Asias |
| - Swedish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Asia |
| Genitive: | Asias |
Statistics
Name Count per Country
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| Country | Commonness
Commonness | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
| Sweden[5] |
 |
254 | 277 | 2 | 2 |
| Norway[6] |
|
144 | n.a. | 0 | n.a. |
| Denmark[7] |
|
142 | n.a. | 0 | n.a. |
| Finland[8] |
 |
n.a. | 56 | 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. |
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References
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Guðrún Kvaran: Nöfn Íslendinga (2011)
- ↑ Adrian Room: Brewer's Dictionary of Names (1992)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Ordbog over muslimske fornavne i Danmark (2005)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi