Asher

boys’ nameAt its peak · modern nameCompare

Asher is ranked 20th among boys in 2024 (8,123 births). Its best rank was 20th, in 2022, 2024.

Rank in 2024: #20up 3 from 2023
Births in 2024: 8,1230.47% of boys
Peak year: 20228,410 births
Best rank: #20first in 2022
Since 1880: 105,094people given the name

Babies named Asher, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

103,698 boys have been named Asher in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 8,410 births — 0.48% of all boys recorded that year.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2022, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2018, and the 2010s alone account for 47%. It has spent 41 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 11 of them in the top 100.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,396 girls have also been given it, 1.3% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Asher
1880s	31
1890s	11
1910s	108
1920s	152
1930s	114
1940s	103
1950s	100
1960s	121
1970s	315
1980s	787
1990s	1,705
2000s	11,124
2010s	48,545
2020s	40,482

In 2022, its biggest year

Asher was the 20th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2022 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, James and Elijah. See all of 2022.

Names that rose and fell with Asher

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.