as a First Name
Jewish: meaning ‘fortunate’ or ‘happy’ in Hebrew. It was borne in the Bible by one of the sons of Jacob: ‘and Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed; and she called his name Asher’ (Genesis 30:13). Outside the Jewish community, it is probably a transferred use of the surname, derived from a local name for someone who lived by an ash tree, Middle English asche.
| 4,617th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,165
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 15,366
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- New York
- has the most people named Asher per capita
- 2010
- marked the height of its popularity
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99.93%
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2%
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4%
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Top state populations
U.S. Distribution Map
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