Girl · Old Norse
Åsa
Say it: OH-sah
Meaning
From Old Norse áss 'god' (one of the Æsir), often a short form of names in Ás-.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
A Viking-age royal name kept in steady use in Sweden and Norway.
Its wave through time
A revival, back after decades away
In the United States
- 19,455 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1881, about 1 in 1,500 boys
- 634 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Viking and Anglo-Saxon Age700 to 1100
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
| Icelandic | Ása |
|---|---|
| Norwegian | Åse |
Famous bearers
- Ása, queen and mother of Halfdan the Black in the Ynglinga saga
- Åse, mother of Peer Gynt in Ibsen's play
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Where this comes from
- The Icelandic sagas and other Old Norse literature
- Well-known works of literature
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament
- Colonial records of the Americas
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
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