Asher
Usually a boy's name
- Literal meaning
- Hebrew 'happy'; in the Bible, a son of Jacob Well attested
The English surname Asher, for an ash maker, is a separate name.
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Popularity
US 2025: #28 (boys) · England and Wales 2025: #150
Popularity: US Social Security Administration 2025; Office for National Statistics 2025, England and Wales. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
This name's meaning doesn't link to one of the five elements, so it isn't matched to a chart here.
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Names with a similar meaning
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The same meaning in Chinese
- 乐 lè happy Traditional form: 樂 Share this pair: 乐
Related in meaning in Chinese
- 怡 yí joy Share this pair: 怡
- 悦 yuè pleased Traditional form: 悅 Share this pair: 悦
- 欣 xīn joyful Share this pair: 欣
- 忻 xīn joyful Share this pair: 忻
- 恺 kǎi joyful Traditional form: 愷 Share this pair: 恺
Source: Unicode Unihan