Asko is a male given name common in

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bo ...

and

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and t ...

. The

nameday In Christianity, a name day is a tradition in many countries of Europe and the Americas, among other parts of Christendom. It consists of celebrating a day of the year that is associated with one's baptismal name, which is normatively that of a ...

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 Asko Parpola (born 12 July 1941, in Forssa) is a Finnish Indologist, current professor emeritus of South Asian studies at the University of Helsinki The University of Helsinki ( fi, Helsingin yliopisto, sv, Helsingfors universitet, abbrevi ...

(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

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