as a Last Name
- 6,890
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Usher
Meaning & Origins
English, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a janitor or gatekeeper, Middle English usher (Anglo-Norman French usser, Old French ussier, huissier, from Late Latin ustiarius, a derivative of classical Latin ostium ‘door’, ‘gate’). The term was also used in the Middle Ages of a court official charged with accompanying a person of rank on ceremonial occasions, and this may be a partial souce of the surname. This surname has been recorded in Ireland since the 14th century, and has sometimes been used as an equivalent of Hession.
| 4,439th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 6,890
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Georgia
- has the most people named Usher per capita
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