Last name ASA: origin and meaning

Publish date: 2024-03-21

Asa : 1: Japanese: written 朝 or 旦 both meaning ‘morning’. However the most likely meaning is 麻 ‘hemp’ which would make it a topographic or occupational name. All forms are found mostly in Amami one of the Ryūkyū Islands.2: Spanish (Navarre): unexplained.

Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press
FANBI : The Oxford Dictionary if Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ©2016, University of the West of England

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