Aasta

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Asta in FI Finland, DK Denmark, SE Sweden and 16 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Aasta is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Hindi given name70 records spelled Aasta3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States

• Finnish given name23 records spelled Aasta2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland

  Also written Äasta

24 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●

Aasta 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.

• In Estonian, a year (a solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun: between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Finnish, alternative form of ajastaika

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

NO SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) — 12 years between 2013–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Aasta Hansteenb. 1824NONorwegian artist and writer (1824-1908)
• Aasta Bjørgum Argentob. 1876NONorwegian missionary
• Aasta Nielsenb. 1897NONorwegian actress (1897-1975)
• Åsta Holthb. 1904NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian writer (1904–1999)
• Aasta Falkbergetb. 1905NONorwegian author
• Aasta Steneb. 1909NONorwegian professor (1909–1961)
• Aasta Vossb. 1914NONorwegian actress (1914-1994)
• Åsta Hjelmb. 1919NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian composer (1919-2003)
• Åsta Vangbergb. 1937NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian politician
• Åsta Årøenb. 1971NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian politician

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 168 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Aasta?

We estimate roughly 20 thousand people bear Aasta (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.

In which country does Aasta have the most bearers?

We estimate about 6.5 thousand people bear Aasta in Denmark, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled asta.

Where is Aasta most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aasta is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 199 people — even though Denmark holds more of our records for it.

How common is Aasta compared with other names?

In Denmark, Aasta is the 232nd most common given name of 31,396 given names recorded there.

Is Aasta a male or female name?

Aasta 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 does the name Aasta mean?

Recorded meaning: See the entry for the lemma form.