girls:
1.3k births since 1975
#4401 (23rd percentile)
boys:
95.5k births since 1880
#317 (93rd percentile)
overall:
96.8k births since 1880
#699 (91st percentile)
The name Asher is the #699 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 96,808 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 91.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #317 (93.1% percentile) for all time with 95,485 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,401 (23.0% percentile) for all time with 1,323 births since 1975.
Asher has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1975 for girls). Birth data for Asher is available in 119 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (119 years for boys and 39 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Asher has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Asher reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 97.9% percentile (ranked #20) with 4,485 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 4,485 births per million (ranked 97.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1990, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Asher is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #23 (97.6% percentile) with 4,289 births per million.
For girls, Asher reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 10.9% percentile (ranked #854) with 61 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 61 births per million (ranked 10.9% percentile). Despite a peak around 2000, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Asher ranks #872 for girls (7.9% percentile) with 46 births per million, which is 75.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Asher".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Asher. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Asher is pronounced as A-sher, which has 2 syllables.
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