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Asher

Pronounced /ˈæ.ʃə(ɹ)/

Rank in 2024
#20
Born in 2024
8,123
Peak year
2022 · #20
Origin
Hebrew

1880 to 2024

Rising
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 8,123 boys were named Asher, about 1 in every 211.
  • It peaked in 2022 with 8,410 babies, ranked #20.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 103,698 boys have been named Asher since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Asher per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0.7
    Gen Z
  7. 3.6
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 241 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Silent: 199 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 192 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 447 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,654 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen Z: 21,735 babies, 0.69 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 79,188 babies, 3.64 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Borrowed from Hebrew אָשֵׁר ('ashér).

  • A male given name from Hebrew.
  • (rare) A female given name from Hebrew.
Origin
Hebrew
Say it
/ˈæ.ʃə(ɹ)/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Asher, CC BY-SA 4.0.