Usher
#1,959 for boys in 2025, 78 births
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 78 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,306since 1914
Usher over time
Rank among boys' names. Usher has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,959 | 78 |
| 2024 | #2,261 | 63 |
| 2023 | #2,315 | 60 |
| 2022 | #2,873 | 44 |
| 2021 | #2,862 | 43 |
| 2020 | #3,074 | 37 |
| 2019 | #2,310 | 59 |
| 2018 | #3,171 | 36 |
| 2017 | #3,312 | 34 |
| 2016 | #2,885 | 41 |
| 2015 | #2,684 | 45 |
| 2014 | #3,456 | 31 |
| 2013 | #2,804 | 41 |
| 2012 | #2,209 | 59 |
| 2011 | #2,699 | 44 |
| 2010 | #3,377 | 32 |
| 2009 | #3,162 | 36 |
| 2008 | #2,717 | 45 |
| 2007 | #3,188 | 35 |
| 2006 | #2,932 | 38 |
| 2005 | #2,467 | 46 |
| 2004 | #2,531 | 43 |
| 2003 | #5,035 | 15 |
| 2002 | #3,095 | 29 |
| 2001 | #4,121 | 19 |
| 2000 | #4,573 | 16 |
| 1999 | #3,834 | 19 |
| 1998 | #3,390 | 22 |
| 1997 | #3,601 | 19 |
| 1996 | #5,982 | 9 |
| 1995 | #4,052 | 15 |
| 1994 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #4,872 | 11 |
| 1991 | #5,942 | 8 |
| 1990 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | — | |
| 1986 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | #6,523 | 5 |
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| 1982 | #4,593 | 8 |
| 1981 | #4,509 | 8 |
| 1980 | — | |
| 1979 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #5,123 | 6 |
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| 1960 | #2,685 | 10 |
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| 1957 | #3,993 | 5 |
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| 1955 | #3,201 | 7 |
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| 1949 | #2,606 | 9 |
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| 1934 | #3,277 | 6 |
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| 1928 | #4,151 | 5 |
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| 1926 | #4,201 | 5 |
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| 1914 | #3,264 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Usher! It came in at #3,264, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1914–1933, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Usher is popular in 2006
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#480 · 1 in 3,423
Best ever in a state: #292 in New York, 2025.
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| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #480 | 32 | 1 in 3,423 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Usher
- 302 spots since 2024 (#2,261 → #1,959)
- 1,115 spots since 2020 (#3,074 → #1,959)
- 725 spots since 2015 (#2,684 → #1,959)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 2025 at #1,959 (78 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 21,898 boys born in 2025 were named Usher (0.00%)
- 32.3% of all boys named Usher (422) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #3,264 (1914) | #3,264 |
| 1920s | 10 | #4,151 (1928) | #4,176 |
| 1930s | 6 | #3,277 (1934) | #3,277 |
| 1940s | 9 | #2,606 (1949) | #2,606 |
| 1950s | 12 | #3,201 (1955) | #3,597 |
| 1960s | 10 | #2,685 (1960) | #2,685 |
| 1970s | 18 | #5,059 (1978) | #5,179 |
| 1980s | 40 | #4,509 (1981) | #5,743 |
| 1990s | 127 | #3,390 (1998) | #5,058 |
| 2000s | 322 | #2,467 (2005) | #3,382 |
| 2010s | 422 | #2,209 (2012) | #2,891 |
| 2020s | 325 | #1,959 (2025) | #2,557 |
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.
Usher in 2006
Top boys' names in 2006
More about 2006
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2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 54,086 of them was named Usher, which outranked 79.1% of the 14,047 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,881Tyrel39
- #2,881Zaylen39
- #2,881Zayn39
- #2,932Usher38
- #2,932Abrahm38
- #2,932Adal38
- #2,932Alexei38
- #2,979Adon37
- #2,979Adrain37
- #2,979Akira37
Tied with 46 names at #2,932; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.