Asher

At the 2020 census, 12,567 Americans bore the surname Asher — 2,792nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 23,800.

By the numbers

People: 12,567
Rank: 2,792nd
How common: 1 in 23,800
Per 100,000: 4.2

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Asher described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 85.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 3.1%
Black, not Hispanic 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Asher

Dina Asher-Smith (born 1995)British sprinter
Jane Asher (born 1946)English actress and author
Jay Asher (born 1975)American author of young adult novels
Peter Asher (born 1944)British guitarist, singer, manager and record producer
Jacob ben Asher (1269–1343)German rabbinic authority (c. 1269 - c. 1343)
John Asher (born 1971)American actor and director
David J. Asher (born 1966)British astronomer
Tony Asher (born 1939)American songwriter and advertising copywriter

People named Asher with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Asher

Also a first name

Asher has been given to 112,690 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2022. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.