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The asta Surname

asta Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from a place in Sicily called Asta.
  2. perhaps also from a medieval byname, either a short form of Astancollo (from asta in collo ‘lance in neck’), or directly from asta ‘lance’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The asta name in History

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Distribution of asta Families in the US in 1920
Number of asta families
 8-14
 3-7		 1-2
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Asta Family Daniel Asta 3
Family name history. Don Asta 17
Asta Ada Asta 2
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Paul Asta Laura 0
Asta Family DiAnn Coughlin Allen 0
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