Asher

What Asher means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Asher yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #28 vs #150 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Asher?

US: Rising: up from #82 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #284 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2022, when 8,418 boys got the name (#20 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 229 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 755 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 578 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in WY (11.93 per 1,000 boys), WV (10.88 per 1,000 boys), AK (10.12 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Asher is #28 in the US and #150 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.2% of US babies named Asher were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Usher78 US
• Ashar26 US · 13 E&W
• Ashur32 US
• Ishir21 US
• Ashir15 US
• Osher9 US · 5 E&W
• Ishar0 US · 5 E&W
• Isher0 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Asher

Boys

• Judah#178Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #178 vs #404 in 2025
• Silas#71Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #71 vs #585 in 2025
• Eden#544possibly “steppe, garden”^*
• Gideon#337Editor’s note Down from #327 in 2015 to #337 in 2025 in the US
• Asa#483“physician, doctor, healer”^*
• Ari#393“lion”^*

For a sister

• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*
• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Delilah#51Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #115 in 2015, #51 in 2025
• Hadassah#569“myrtle”^*
• Eliana#10Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #10 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel
• Eden#70possibly “steppe, garden”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Bible, Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Asher’s. Rank is US 2025.