Alisher

Boys' name

From fa-cls عَلِیشیر; literal meaning unconfirmed

Alisher has been given to 35 babies in the U.S. since 2014. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2014, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Alisher, 2019

1 in 579,000

Alisher over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Alisher: meaning, origin, and history

From fa-cls عَلِیشیر; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Alisher means

Alisher is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Alisher is used in Uzbek.

Alisher comes through fa-cls عَلِیشیر.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 35 boys were recorded with the name Alisher between 2014 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2014; its best national rank was #7,068 in 2014.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Alisher?

Alisher had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019: 1 in 579,000; 6 of 3,472,229 births
Among boys only: 1 in 299,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2019: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 401,129 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Alisher sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 401,129 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Alisher. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Alishers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Alisher was born before 2016 — so the typical Alisher is around 9 today.

Median birth year: 2016; About 9 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 35; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (35).

Is Alisher rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2014 (11)
Years since peak: 11; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 16.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #7,068; 2014

Spellings of Alisher

Alisher is not the most common spelling — Asher is, with 91.6% against Alisher's 0.03%.

Asher91.6%111,227
Fisher5.4%6,581
Alister1.4%1,659
Allister1.0%1,250
Aleister0.54%653
Alisher0.03%35

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Alisher is used

Across 1910–2025, Alisher was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Alisher has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Alisher around the world

Where Alisher ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2008–2008
#4,432
in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Alisher by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #7,068; 2014
Peak year: 2014; 11 that year
First recorded: 2014
Last recorded: 2019
All-time count: 35
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Alisher

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Aliyaan Alikhan Reacher Dilsher Alihan Aliyar Alishan Alioune Alistar Alijiah Alistor Alizah Alikai Alissa Aliyan Aliyah Lesther Aliyas Walther Alijha Munther Aliyus Casher Preacher

Sibling names for Alisher

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Honesty Elayna Montserrat Priya Yamileth Braylee Laylah Vivien

For a brother

Jai Vihaan Casen Gannon Constantine Cain Branson Korbin

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