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Asko (name)
Asko is a male given name common in Finland and Estonia. The nameday is 6 September. The first Asko was baptised in 1901, and as of 2009 there were more than 8000 people with this name in Finland. Notable people with the name include: * Asko Esna (born 1986), Estonian volleyball player * Asko Jussila (born 1963), Finnish football manager * Asko Kase (born 1979), Estonian film director * Asko Künnap (born 1971), Estonian poet, artist, graphic designer and marketer * Asko Paade (born 1984), Estonian basketball player * Asko Parpola (born 1941), Finnish Indologist and Sindhologist * Asko Peltoniemi (born 1963), Finnish pole vaulter * Asko Sahlberg (born 1964), Finnish novelist * Asko Sarkola (born 1945), Finnish actor and theatre manager References {{given name Finnish masculine given names Estonian masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nameday
In Christianity, a name day is a tradition in many countries of Europe and the Americas, as well as Christian communities elsewhere. It consists of celebrating a day of the year that is associated with one's baptismal name, which is normatively that of a biblical character or other saint. Where they are popular, individuals celebrate both their name day and their birthday in a given year. The custom originated with the Christian calendar of saints: believers named after a saint would celebrate that saint's feast day. Within Christianity, name days have greater resonance in areas where the Christian denominations of Catholicism, Lutheranism and Orthodoxy predominate. In some countries, however, name-day celebrations do not have a connection to explicitly Christian traditions. History The celebration of name days has been a tradition in Catholic and Eastern Orthodox countries since the Middle Ages, and has also continued in some measure in countries, such as the Scandinavian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
