First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Norwegian and Swedish (Åsen): topographic name from åsen ‘the ridge’. In Norway, this is also a habitational name from any of the numerous farms so named all over the country.