Usher

Yiddish variation of Asher or English surname from French

"blessed; doorkeeper"

Famous People Named Usher

• Usher Terry Raymond IV American singer
• Usher Terry "Cinco" Raymond V son of American singer Usher

The name Usher in Pop Culture

• Usher de Gray character in Jenny Nimmo's "The Children of the Red King" series
• Usher Hall a concert hall in Edinburgh, opened in 1914. It was built with funds endowed by Andrew Usher (1826,98), a Scottish whisky distiller.
• 'The Fall of the House of Usher' (1839) a Gothic romance by Edgar Allan Poe describing the extinction of the last of the Usher line, the etiolated Roderick Usher and his equally wan twin Madeline, who is buried alive and returns from the grave to carry off her brother to his death