Asta

given name · Finnish · Latin script

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

Asta is a given name, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Finnish and Danish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Asta är ursprungligen en smekform till → Astrid.

rarermore common
  • ISIceland1 in 199◐
  • DKDenmark1 in 909
  • FIFinland1 in 1.3K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈20K ●

across 13 countries

Sources
81 ●

3.3K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 199 ◐

Iceland

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Aasta in NZ New Zealand.

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●

recorded in Swedish

Asta är ursprungligen en smekform till → Astrid. I den rikssvenska almanackan 27 november och i den finlandssvenska 30 juli.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Asta is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DK Denmark#2326,460△384 rec.1 in 9096.5KAsta81
SE Sweden—5,359△476 rec.1 in 1.9K5.4KAsta27
FI Finland#5404,300△514 rec.1 in 1.3K6.4KAsta51
IS Iceland#1341,762△103 rec.1 in 1991.8KAsta53
EE Estonia#3861,08454 rec.—863Asta10
NO Norway#786723△250 rec.1 in 7.6K2.4KAsta29
BR Brazil—678—1 in 312K929——
US United States—611871 rec.1 in 544K611Asta46
IN India—23445 rec.—312Asta9
ES Spain—108△16 rec.1 in 463K108Asta4
NG Nigeria—100172 rec.——Asta8
GB United Kingdom—7757 rec.——Asta12

Roughly 6.5K people in Denmark bear this name (about 1 in 909). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Finnish25K25%
  • Danish23K24%
  • Portuguese10K11%
  • Lithuanian7.3K7%
  • English7.3K7%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Finnish24,50525%
Danish23,15924%
Portuguese10,35511%
Lithuanian7,2897%
English7,2547%

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◐

Asta is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name18K records spelled Asta17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, India, Brazil

    Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

    Also written Ásta, Aesta, Åsta, Ästa, Ăsta

  • Portuguese given name17K records spelled Asta8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Spain, Argentina, United States

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Åstã, Ãsta, Astá, Åsta, Ásta

  • Lithuanian given name8.8K records spelled Asta3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania, United States, United Kingdom, Spain

    Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

    Also written Ásta

  • a separate given name3.5K records spelled Asta3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Norway, Sweden

    Also written Åsta, Ásta

  • French given name2.7K records spelled Asta14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Cameroon

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Aste, Asté, Ásta, Aster, Àsté

  • Indonesian given name2.3K records spelled Asta4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, India, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Åsta, Ásta

  • Italian given name848 records spelled Asta5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Spain

    Also written Ãsta, Åsta, ́asta, Ásta

52 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●

Asta is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Norse; short form of Astrid

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  • In German, in Deutschland seit dem 19. Jh. vorkom­ mender weibl. Vom., Kurzform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Scandinavian: short form of ASTRID . There has been much confusion with ÅSTA .

    as a word

  • In German, abbreviation of Allgemeiner Studentenausschuß or Allgemeiner Studentenausschuss (“General Students' Committee”)

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

  • In Sundanese, measurement from the elbow to the tip of the finger; also the length of the entire arm, woman’s ell

    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.

Over time●

05101520196019802000202020 · 1985

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Asta in SSB — Navn (1880–present), Norway, 1945–2025
Yearrecords
194517
194613
19476
194815
194910
19507
19519
19529
19539
19548
19558
19568
195712
19607
19614
19626
19635
19644
19674
196810
19699
19704
197116
197210
197310
197410
19759
19769
197714
197810
19795
198011
198115
198210
198313
19847
198520
198611
19874
19889
19908
19915
19984
20014
20024
20034
20065
20074
20086
201010
20115
20124
20146
20155
20166
201711
201811
20199
202011
202116
202215
202320
202418
202519

NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 64 years between 1945–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

500100015002000Åsta Gudbrandsdatter, b. 970Asta Nørregaard, b. 1853Asta Nielsen, b. 1881Asta Hansen, b. 1914Asta Vihandi, b. 1929Asta Scheib, b. 1939Helena Kallenbäck, b. 1944Ásta Árnadóttir, b. 1983Asta Vrečko, b. 1984Asta Kamma August, b. 1991

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●

Attested in 69 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Asta
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—6.5K#105
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—6.4K#571
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—5.4K#586
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—4.3K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20202.8K—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—2.4K#963
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—929#9,651
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—863#183
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025723—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022678—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—676#10,842
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020611#17,483

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 449 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Asta?
We estimate roughly 20 thousand people bear Asta (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Asta have the most bearers?
We estimate about 6.5 thousand people bear Asta in Denmark, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled asta.
Where is Asta most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Asta is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 199 people — even though Denmark holds more of our records for it.
How common is Asta compared with other names?
In Denmark, Asta is the 232nd most common given name of 31,396 given names recorded there.
Is Asta a male or female name?
Asta 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 Asta mean?
Recorded meaning: Asta är ursprungligen en smekform till → Astrid.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Asta” — the 232nd most common given name in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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