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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).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of asa Families in the US in 1920
Number of asa families
 7-11
 3-6		 1-2
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 24 - Messages: 56
ThreadAuthorReplies
Asay/Asa Veronica 1
ASA, PRUITT in MO ca. 1900 Ellen Thomas 1
Asa, Pruitt in southeast MO ellenthomas2_1 5
Asa Partridge in MI Jeanne Cadwell 1
looking for my wife's missing niece's Bob DeLosSantos 0
Rebecca Asee Dona Bradley 0
Lewis Asasa / Asa / Assa Ian Thatcher 0
Mrs. Mattie May Hayes JWelsch50 0
Article JWelsch50 0
Mrs. Mary "Nancy" Brewer nee Asa JWelsch50 0
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