Fun Facts About the Name Ascher
- 519 babies named Ascher: U.S. records list 519 babies given the name Ascher from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Ascher Mean?
Ascher is a variant of the Hebrew name Asher, meaning "happy" or "blessed." The Hebrew name rests on the root aleph-shin-resh, the root behind words for happiness and good fortune, such as osher ("happiness") and the exclamation ashrei ("blessed"). The spelling Ascher is a German and Yiddish rendering of the same name: German sch stands for the "sh" sound, so Ascher and Asher are one name written for two languages rather than two separate names.
Ascher also exists as a German surname with unrelated origins; it can be a topographic name for someone living near an ash tree, or a habitational name taken from a place such as Aschersleben in Saxony-Anhalt. That surname is not the source of the given name used by Jewish families, though the two are sometimes confused because they look alike.
Ascher Name History & Origins
The name behind Ascher is biblical. In the Book of Genesis, Asher is the eighth son of Jacob, born to Zilpah, the handmaid of Leah, and Leah names him with a wordplay on happiness. His descendants form the Tribe of Asher, one of the twelve tribes of Israel, whose allotted territory lay along the northern coast of Canaan. Asher also appears in later biblical books, and the Gospel of Luke mentions the prophetess Anna as a member of the tribe.
Asher continued in use as a Jewish personal name long after biblical times. In medieval and early modern Ashkenazi communities, Hebrew names were commonly written and spoken in German or Yiddish form, and Asher appears in that setting as Ascher and Aszer. Since German sch represents the "sh" sound, Ascher is the German-language spelling of the Hebrew name, not a different name. Jewish families carried that spelling with them as they settled in Scandinavia and later in the Americas, where Ascher has been used alongside Asher.
The German surname Ascher developed separately, as a topographic or habitational name, and its history is not the history of the Jewish given name.
How Popular is the Name Ascher?
Ascher has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2013. Its best rank was #3,002 in 2013.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #4,261 | 24 | 0.0014% |
| 2024 | #5,244 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2023 | #4,896 | 20 | 0.0012% |
| 2022 | #3,540 | 32 | 0.0018% |
| 2021 | #3,743 | 29 | 0.0017% |
| 2020 | #3,821 | 27 | 0.0016% |
| 2019 | #4,117 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 2018 | #4,367 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 2017 | #3,316 | 34 | 0.0018% |
| 2016 | #3,169 | 36 | 0.0019% |
| 2015 | #3,690 | 29 | 0.0015% |
| 2014 | #3,791 | 27 | 0.0014% |
| 2013 | #3,002 | 37 | 0.0020% |
| 2012 | #4,547 | 21 | 0.0011% |
| 2011 | #4,372 | 22 | 0.0012% |
| 2010 | #3,535 | 30 | 0.0016% |
| 2009 | #5,347 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 2008 | #4,403 | 22 | 0.0011% |
| 2007 | #6,295 | 13 | 0.0006% |
| 2006 | #5,323 | 16 | 0.0008% |
| 2005 | #6,678 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2004 | #10,057 | 6 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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