Usher
2025 SSA
About Usher
Strongly associated with the mega-popular single-named singer, who was actually the fourth Usher Raymond in his family. He could start a fad.
The Yiddish variation of Usher is commonly used in the Hasidic community.
Pronounced UH-sher.
As of October 2026, Usher ranked #1974 in US births in 2025 SSA.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #3,526 | 31 | 16.1 |
| 2015 | #2,715 | 45 | 23.5 |
| 2016 | #2,930 | 41 | 21.6 |
| 2017 | #3,370 | 34 | 18.4 |
| 2018 | #3,235 | 36 | 19.8 |
| 2019 | #2,360 | 58 | 32.3 |
| 2020 | #3,130 | 37 | 21.4 |
| 2021 | #2,914 | 43 | 24.6 |
| 2022 | #2,912 | 44 | 25.2 |
| 2023 | #2,339 | 60 | 35.1 |
| 2024 | #2,332 | 61 | 35.4 |
| 2025 | #1,974 | 78 | 45.7 |
World rankings
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Usher on lists
Famous Ushers
- Usher Terry Raymond IV
American singer
- Usher Terry "Cinco" Raymond V
son of American singer Usher
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