First name origin & meaning: Hebrew: Fortunate First name variations: Asser, Ashe, Ashbel, Ashar, Ashor, Ashur, Anschel Last name origins & meanings:
- English (mainly Sussex and Hampshire): topographic name
denoting someone dwelling by an ash tree, from Middle English
asche ‘ash tree’ + the habitational suffix -er.
- Jewish: from the Hebrew personal name Asher ‘blessed’.
- Americanized spelling of German Ascher.
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