Asher

Editor’s take on Asher

Asher is still on its way up: an 87% rise over the past decade brought it to its highest-ever rank, #20, in 2022, and 2024's count of 8,123 sits only slightly below that peak of 8,410 — a name that hasn't yet shown any sign of turning over.

Its history in the data has real gaps: the decades-active list skips the 1900s entirely, meaning fewer than five Asher births were recorded in the US in that decade, before the name picked back up in the 1910s and has appeared in every decade since — an unusually specific dormant stretch for a name with roots this old (first recorded in 1880).

Its famous-bearer list is a mix of the historical and the very recent — 19th-century painter Asher Brown Durand, playwright Arthur Miller (born Asher Miller), and Disney Channel actor Asher Angel — which, unlike Michael's steady multi-century presence, looks more like a name that went quiet for most of its history and only recently found an audience.

— NameCharted, updated 2026-07-21