Ashur
#3,513 for boys in 2025, 32 births
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 49 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 794since 1979
Ashur over time
Rank among boys' names. Ashur has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,513 | 32 |
| 2024 | #2,674 | 49 |
| 2023 | #3,347 | 35 |
| 2022 | #3,216 | 37 |
| 2021 | #2,918 | 42 |
| 2020 | #2,759 | 44 |
| 2019 | #3,143 | 37 |
| 2018 | #2,943 | 40 |
| 2017 | #3,440 | 32 |
| 2016 | #4,624 | 21 |
| 2015 | #2,766 | 43 |
| 2014 | #3,693 | 28 |
| 2013 | #3,753 | 27 |
| 2012 | #3,297 | 33 |
| 2011 | #3,364 | 32 |
| 2010 | #4,517 | 21 |
| 2009 | #4,035 | 25 |
| 2008 | #5,067 | 18 |
| 2007 | #5,434 | 16 |
| 2006 | #4,675 | 19 |
| 2005 | #4,326 | 20 |
| 2004 | #4,421 | 19 |
| 2003 | #4,815 | 16 |
| 2002 | #6,088 | 11 |
| 2001 | #4,676 | 16 |
| 2000 | #4,066 | 19 |
| 1999 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #8,110 | 6 |
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| 1995 | #5,501 | 10 |
| 1994 | #6,968 | 7 |
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| 1990 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #6,951 | 5 |
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| 1979 | #6,056 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ashur! It came in at #6,056, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1979–1988, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Ashur is popular in 2021
No state had 5 or more boys named Ashur in 2021, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Ashur
- 839 spots since 2024 (#2,674 → #3,513)
- 754 spots since 2020 (#2,759 → #3,513)
- 747 spots since 2015 (#2,766 → #3,513)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2024 at #2,674 (49 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 35,161 boys born in 2024 were named Ashur (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 53,377 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 39.5% of all boys named Ashur (314) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #6,056 (1979) | #6,056 |
| 1980s | 18 | #5,615 (1989) | #6,612 |
| 1990s | 39 | #5,501 (1995) | #7,883 |
| 2000s | 179 | #4,035 (2009) | #4,760 |
| 2010s | 314 | #2,766 (2015) | #3,554 |
| 2020s | 239 | #2,674 (2024) | #3,071 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ashur in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 41,654 of them was named Ashur, which outranked 79.3% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,862Usher43
- #2,862Walt43
- #2,862Zaki43
- #2,918Ashur42
- #2,918Abubakr42
- #2,918Arsalan42
- #2,918Auron42
- #2,972Aadvik41
- #2,972Aasir41
- #2,972Aayush41
Tied with 53 names at #2,918; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.