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