Ása

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a female given name from Old Norse

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/auːsa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Ása is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 275(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 783
  • FIFinland1 in 6K

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.

Sweden (measured from records)

37,097 people

Sources
90 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 275 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Asa in SE Sweden, US United States, FI Finland and 1 more.

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(measured from records)

a female given name from Old Norse

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ása 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.

Where Ása is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#80337,0971 in 27537KAsa83
US United States—14,1261 in 24K13KAsa90
FI Finland—9311 in 6K1.2KAsa10
IS Iceland#3114481 in 783471Ása37
DK Denmark—941 in 62K94Asa26
GY Guyana—141 in 54K14——

37,097 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling åsa. 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ása is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Afrikaans

    Also written Asa, As'A, Aşa, A'Sa, Āśā

  • a separate name17 spellings in the group

    Also written Âsa, Ăşa, Āsa, Aşa, Aša

  • French given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Sweden, United States, Benin

    Also written Asa, Åsa, Asã, Âşă, Aşa

11 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ása is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In kls, his/her/its (present but far from speaker) (3rd-person possessive pronoun)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Iloko, whet, hone, grind; polish, burnish; to gall, to chafe, to fret

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In dgc, to hope, depend on

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Cebuano, hope

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Ása,

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 8 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Ása
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IS IcelandHagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005)2005471#82
IS IcelandHagstofa — population register names 20232023457#102
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)2026448—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—31#3,677
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—10#35,656
IS IcelandMannanafnaskrá — official register of approved personal names———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ása mean, and where does it come from?
a female given name from Old Norse Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Ása?
A machine transcription gives /auːsa/ (IPA) for Icelandic.
Is Ása a male or female name?
Ása 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.
In which country does Ása have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 37 thousand people named Ása, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled asa.
Where is Ása most common?
Ása is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 275 people carrying it.
How common is the name Ása?
In Sweden, the national register counted 37,097 people named Ása, about 1 in 275 residents.
How common is Ása compared with other names?
In Sweden, Ása is the 803rd most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.

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The 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, “Ása” — the 803rd most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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