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The asher Surname

asher Name Meaning and History

  1. English (mainly Sussex and Hampshire): topographic name denoting someone dwelling by an ash tree, from Middle English asche ‘ash tree’ + the habitational suffix -er.
  2. Jewish: from the Hebrew personal name Asher ‘blessed’.
  3. Americanized spelling of German Ascher.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The asher name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the asher family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of asher Families in the US in 1920
Number of asher families
 103-203
 35-102		 1-34
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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