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Ashur

#3,518 in 2025Boys' name

Ashur city name

Ashur has been given to 794 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #3,518 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 49 recorded.

Babies named Ashur, 2025

1 in 104,000

Ashur over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ashur: meaning, origin, and history

Ashur city name

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ashur means

Ashur is documented as a given name taken from the city name. That is its immediate naming reference.

Origin, language, and formation

Ashur is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 794 boys were recorded with the name Ashur between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 49 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,675 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,763 in 2020 to #3,518 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,770 in 2015 to #3,518 in 2025.

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 Ashur?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 104,000
32 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 53,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,518
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
71,810 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ashur 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 2025 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 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ashur. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ashurs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ashur was born before 2015 — so the typical Ashur is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
794
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Choose a decade

2010s — 39.5% of all recorded uses (314).

Is Ashur 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
−843
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−755
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−748
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.74×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
65.3%
Peak was 2024 (49)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,675
2024

Spellings of Ashur

Ashur is not the most common spelling — Arthur is, with 81.1% against Ashur's 0.12%.

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 Ashur is used

Across 1910–2025, Ashur was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,141,535 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4North Carolina1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 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. Ashur has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ashur around the world

Where Ashur 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
    2002–2004
    #3,651
    in 2004
  • Canada
    2006–2023
    #2,747
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2005–2005
    #643
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ashur by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,518
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 755
Best rank ever
#2,675
2024
Peak year
2024
49 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
794
Count in 2025
32

Names similar to Ashur

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

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Sibling names for Ashur

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

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