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The asa Surname

asa Name Meaning and History

  1. Japanese: variously written, sometimes with characters used phonetically. It can mean ‘morning’, but the most likely meaning is ‘hemp’, making it a topographic or occupational name. Both forms are found mostly in Amami, one of the Ryukyu Islands.
  2. Hungarian: from Assa, a pet form of the ecclesiastical personal name Asbót (see Oswald).

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asa Family Facts

Distribution of asa Families in the US in 1920
Number of asa families
 7-11
 3-6
 1-2
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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