Names

Form of Asher used in the Greek and Latin Old Testament.

Form of Asenath used in the Greek Old Testament.

Form of Asenath used in the Latin Bible.

Means “devoted to the goddess Neith” in Ancient Egyptian. In the Old Testament this is the name of Joseph’s Egyptian wife. She was the mother of Manasseh and Ephraim.

Hebrew form of Asenath.

Possibly of Scythian origin meaning “blue”. In Turkic mythology Asena was a grey wolf who gave birth to the ancestor of the Ashina tribe of Turks.

Meaning unknown, probably of Turkic origin. This was the name of a 12th-century Bulgarian emperor (Ivan Asen I) and several of his successors.

From Arabic عَسَل (‘asal) meaning “honey”.

Alternate transcription of Hindi असीम (see Asim 2).

Norwegian form of Åsa, as well as a Swedish and Danish variant. It was used by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen in his play Peer Gynt (1867), where it belongs to the mother of the title character.