Names like Asher
In 2025, 7,456 boys born in the US were named Asher, #28 among boys' names.
It was in the top 1,000 as early as 1880, dropped out, and has been back every year since 1992.
Its best rank was #20, in 2022 and 2024.
The most births in one year were 8,418, in 2022.
Births rose 45% from 5,137 in 2015.
For 10 of the 12 names below, the current unbroken run in the top 1,000 began in 1987 or later (Asher's began in 1992).
Asher's rank every ten years
- 1880#780
- 1890#923
- 1900—
- 1910—
- 1920—
- 1930—
- 1940—
- 1950—
- 1960—
- 1970—
- 1980—
- 1990—
- 2000#577
- 2010#138
- 2020#32
- 2025#28
— outside the top 1,000
12 boy names with a similar curve
How this list was made
We compared Asher's rank in every year from 1880 to 2025 with every other boy's name in the 2025 top 1,000 (US Social Security birth records); the closest curves come first. Years outside the top 1,000 count the same however far outside, years since 1995 count four times as much, and each name appears in one spelling.