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Asser

#12,200 in 2025Boys' name

Happy

Asser has been given to 170 babies in the U.S. since 2011. In 2025 it ranked #12,200 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Asser, 2025

1 in 663,000

Asser over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Asser: meaning, origin, and history

Happy

Biblical Hebrew

What Asser means

Asser means “happy”, associated with 'ashér.

Origin, language, and formation

Asser is used in Finnish and German. Its origins include Biblical Hebrew.

Asser comes through Biblical Hebrew אָשֵׁר and Swedish Assar.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Asher.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Asser is pronounced /ˈɑsːer/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 170 boys were recorded with the name Asser between 2011 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2019; its best national rank was #4,972 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,659 in 2020 to #12,200 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,355 in 2015 to #12,200 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 Asser?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#12,200
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Asser 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Asser. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Assers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Asser was born before 2019 — so the typical Asser is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
57.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
170
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 57.6% of all recorded uses (98).

Is Asser 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
−5,706
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,541
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,845
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.3%
Peak was 2019 (19)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,972
2019

Spellings of Asser

Asser is not the most common spelling — Asher is, with 46.4% against Asser's 0.07%.

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 Asser is used

Across 1910–2025, Asser was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,903,406 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 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. Asser has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Asser around the world

Where Asser 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
    2015–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • France
    2012–2025
    #921
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Asser by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,200
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,541
Best rank ever
#4,972
2019
Peak year
2019
19 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
170
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Asser

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

AssadAssanJaserAssaneAserKyserNaserAssiahYaserJasserMesserFraserKiserRosserAssaelAssilKinserKayserYasserAssafNasserKeiserRyserAssante

Sibling names for Asser

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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