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First name origin & meaning:

Hebrew: Fortunate

First name variations: Asser, Ashe, Ashbel, Ashar, Ashor, Ashur, Anschel

Last name origins & meanings:

  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.

This name appears in the following lists: Biblical Names