Åsa

given name · Latin script

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

Åsa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country. In India it is the 21st most common given name. Recorded meaning: Åsa är ett nordiskt namn, fornvästnordiskt Ása, ursprungligen en smekform till namn på Ås-, av urnordiskt *ansur ’hednisk gud’.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 275(measured from records)
  • TZTanzania≈1 in 211as Asha
  • THThailand≈1 in 2.3Kas อุษา

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Åsa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)

≈280,000 named Asha, est.

#386 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

8 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
288 (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)

UsaLatin(measured from records)
อุษาThai(measured from records)
АшаCyrillic(measured from records)
אושהHebrew(measured from records)
ኡሻEthiopic(measured from records)
우샤Hangul(measured from records)
აშაGeorgian(measured from records)
ఉషTelugu(measured from records)

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Asha in IN India, BD Bangladesh, KE Kenya, อุษา in TH Thailand, Usa in TZ Tanzania and Usha in NP Nepal.

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)

recorded in Swedish

Åsa är ett nordiskt namn, fornvästnordiskt Ása, ursprungligen en smekform till namn på Ås-, av urnordiskt *ansur ’hednisk gud’. Åsa är ett av de vanligaste kvinnonamnen i de vikingatida nordiska runinskrifterna. I den rikssvenska almanackan 12 september och i den finlandssvenska 13 juni.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Åsa 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 Åsa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TZ Tanzania#351≈280,000 est.≈1 in 2118Usa22
SE Sweden#5737,0971 in 27537KÅsa89
TH Thailand#360≈30,000 est.≈1 in 2.3K#660,801อุษา107
BD Bangladesh#354≈23,000 est.≈1 in 7KlistedAsha48
KE Kenya—≈17,000 est.≈1 in 3.1K—Asha13
NP Nepal—≈16,000 est.≈1 in 1.9K—Usha48
IS Iceland—4481 in 783471——
IN India#21——723Asha229

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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Åsa is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Sweden, United States, Norway

    Also written Asa, Âsa, Ãsã, Äsâ, Aşa

  • a separate name17 spellings in the group

    Also written Âsa, Ăşa, Āsa, Aşa, Ása

  • French given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Sweden, United States, Benin

    Also written Asa, Asã, Âşă, Aşa, Ašä

  • Russian given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Sweden, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Asa, Эйса, Eisa, Asâ, Эиса

  • Croatian given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Sweden, Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian

    Also written Asa, Aša, Aşa, ša, Ása

29 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)

Åsa is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Scandinavian: short form of any of various Old Norse female personal names containing the first element áss god. In Norway and Denmark the form Åse is also common.

    as a word

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, a female given name from Old Norse

    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)

19501960197019801990Stina Ekblad, b. 1954Åsa Domeij, b. 1962Åsa Jinder, b. 1963Åsa Larsson, b. 1966Åsa Linderborg, b. 1968Åsa Mossberg, b. 1968Åsa Lönnqvist, b. 1970Åsa Romson, b. 1972Åsa Svensson, b. 1975Åsa Ekström, b. 1983

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Åsa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—37K#110
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)199929K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200029K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200129K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200228K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200328K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200428K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200528K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200628K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200728K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200828K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200928K—

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

What does the name Åsa mean?
Recorded meaning: Åsa är ett nordiskt namn, fornvästnordiskt Ása, ursprungligen en smekform till namn på Ås-, av urnordiskt *ansur ’hednisk gud’.
Is Åsa a male or female name?
Åsa 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 Åsa?
In the etymology graph, Åse is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Åsa have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 278 thousand people named Asha in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Åsa most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Åsa is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 275 people — even though Tanzania holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Åsa?
In Sweden, the national register counted 37,097 people named Åsa, about 1 in 275 residents.
How common is Åsa compared with other names?
In Tanzania, Åsa is the 351st most common given name of 37,285 given names recorded there.

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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, “Åsa” — the 351st most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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