Asher (name)


Asher is an English and Germanic occupational surname for an ash maker, derived from the Middle English surname "Aschere" or from German " Äscher". It could also be a form of the Old English surname "Æsċer", meaning someone who lived by an ash tree or ash grove, suffix denoting an inhabitant. It is also a common Jewish and Christian first name, as well as a Jewish surname, and is the name of Asher the son of Israel in the Old Testament—therefore unrelated to the Old English or Germanic occupational root.

People with the surname