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The ASHER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 12,710 2611 0.005 47
United States (1880 census) 2,351 2585 0.005 47
Change since 1880 +10359 -26 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 342 4623 0.002 21
United Kingdom 1,580 3586 0.003 34
Top States for ASHER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 1,403 442 0.035 347
California 1,101 2964 0.003 33
Missouri 905 760 0.016 162
Ohio 900 1569 0.008 79
Indiana 879 867 0.014 145
Top States for ASHER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 1,403 442 0.035 347
Missouri 905 760 0.016 162
Indiana 879 867 0.014 145
Idaho 147 1219 0.011 114
Wyoming 53 1134 0.011 107

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ASHER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ASHER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ASHER in Kentucky than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ASHER by picking someone at random in Kentucky than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ASHER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ASHER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the ASHER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of ASHER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 370 2.91
White (Hispanic) 250 1.97
Asian/Pacific 208 1.64
Mixed Race 202 1.59
Native American/Alaskan 104 0.82
White (Caucasian) 11,576 91.08

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ASHER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of ASHER in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of ASHER.

Similar names to ASHER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ASHER.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for ASHER

The following words are slight variants of ASHER that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.