Ásta
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/austa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ásta is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 296(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 909
- FIFinland1 in 1.3K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- 1 in 296 (inferred from the name graph)
6,460 people
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Asta in FI Finland, SE Sweden and Åsta in NO Norway.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ásta counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
6,460 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ásta is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hungarian, third-person singular indicative past definite of ás
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Åsta Gudbrandsdatterb. 970Mother of two Norwegian Kings
- Asta Nørregaardb. 1853NONorwegian artist (1853–1933)
- Asta Nielsenb. 1881DKDanish actress (1881-1972)
- Asta Hansenb. 1914DKDanish actress (1914-1962)
- Asta Vihandib. 1929EEEstonian actress and singer (1929-1993)
- Asta Scheibb. 1939DEGerman screenwriter, journalist and author
- Helena Kallenbäckb. 1944SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress
- Ásta Árnadóttirb. 1983ISIcelandic footballer
- Asta Vrečkob. 1984SISlovenian politician
- Asta Kamma Augustb. 1991SEDanish-Swedish actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005) | 2005 | 1.3K | #13 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa — population register names 2023 | 2023 | 1.2K | #19 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1.2K | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 38 | #3,165 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 22 | #23,265 |
| IS Iceland | Mannanafnaskrá — official register of approved personal names | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ásta?
- A machine transcription gives /austa/ (IPA) for Icelandic.
- Is Ásta a male or female name?
- Ásta is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Ásta?
- In the etymology graph, it is recorded as a short form of Ástríður.
- In which country does Ásta have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 6.5 thousand people named Ásta, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ásta most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ásta is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 296 people — even though Denmark holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ásta?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 6,460 people named Ásta, about 1 in 909 residents.
What do you want to know about Ásta?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A1staThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ásta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.