Asherah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ASH-er-ah
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Asherah is a girls' name of Hebrew origin. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Asherah mean?
Hebrew: name of a Canaanite goddess in the Hebrew Bible
Asherah was an ancient Semitic mother goddess whose worship is condemned in several books of the Hebrew Bible.
Is Asherah a girl's or a boy's name?
Asherah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Asherah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Asherah, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 1995.
2025 had fewer girls named Asherah than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Asherah in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Asherah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,027 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,380 |
Nicknames for Asherah
- Ash 31 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Asherah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hadassah Aaliyah Zaniyah Aziyah Alaiyah Zaliyah Nusaybah Naziyah Azariyah Atarah Kaliyah Zamira
Names related to Asherah
More Hebrew names
Noah Isabella Elijah James Jack Mia Ava Jude Ezra Benjamin Isaac Jacob Ethan Daniel Samuel Elias
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Asherah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/asherah, updated 20 October 2026.