Given name & surname · also Danish
Asmus
Asmus is a surname from Danish, ultimately from German. It is used in English and Danish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Asmus comes from Danish, and ultimately from German.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Danish usage, Asmus developed from Erasmus.
Asmus’s family of names
In Danish usage, Asmus developed from the Latin form Erasmus.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Asmus
- Asmus Jacob CarstensGerman history painter (1754–1798)
- Asmus Ehrenreich von Bredow(1693-1756)
- Asmus TietchensGerman composer (born 1947)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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