Given name · also Latin
Asmo
Asmo is a masculine given name, probably from Latin, ultimately from German. It is used in Finnish.
Original LatinErasmus
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Asmo probably comes from Latin, and ultimately from German.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Finnish usage, Asmo developed from the Latin form Erasmus.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2025. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Asmo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 0 boys · 11 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 11
- #8,937 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 11 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 8,937 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Asmo’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Asmo developed from the Latin form Erasmus. In Finnish usage, Asmo shares a linguistic root with the English form Osmund.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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