Ashur
Masculine · “of Ashur”
Ashur is the name of a god, a city and an empire all at once — the Assyrians took their name from their chief deity, and he from their first capital, or the other way round.
How old is the name Ashur?
Ashur first appears in US birth records in 1979 — 46 years ago. The typical Ashur is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Ashur are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ashur most popular?
Ashur peaked in 2024, reaching #2674 nationally. Today it ranks #3513, 839 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Ashur
The city of Ashur on the middle Tigris was the original Assyrian capital, and its god carried the same name — the identification of a city with its deity was normal in Mesopotamia. The empire that grew from it dominated the Near East for centuries. The name survives among Assyrian Christians, who have kept their identity and their Aramaic language since, and it reaches American records with Assyrian families from Iraq, Iran and Syria.
Meaningscholars disagree
of Ashur
Ashur names the chief god of the Assyrians, their oldest capital city on the Tigris, and the empire itself; which came first is genuinely disputed. The god's own name has no accepted derivation.
Pronouncing Ashur
AH-shoor
Two syllables, first stressed. Some families stress the second, ah-SHOOR.
Nicknames for Ashur
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1979
- Most boys named
- 202449 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2674reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −34.7%32 in 2025, from 49
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Ashur in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ashur in Aramaic — same name
- Ashour in Arabic — transliteration
- Ashur in Hebrew — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Illinois, Texas.
Ashurs among us
people named Ashur are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 53,377 born in 2025 was named Ashur
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Parsa test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Ashur's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Parsa climbed just as high around 2003, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Parsa's path sketches the road Ashur is walking now.
Ashur sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Ashur is headed
Ashur should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Ashur beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Ashur in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A name with four thousand years of documented history behind it.
- Ash is available immediately as an entirely ordinary English short form.
- It carries a living community identity, which matters a great deal to the families who use it.
- It is the name of a god and an empire, which is a large thing to carry.
- The Assyrian empire has a hard reputation in the biblical record.
- Ashur, Ashour and Assur are all used in transliteration.
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Frequently asked
- How many Ashurs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Ashur are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Ashur in 2025?
- Ashur ranks #3513 among US boy names in 2025, with 32 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Ashur?
- About 1 in every 53,377 US boys born in 2025 was named Ashur — 32 in all.
- Will my child share the name Ashur with classmates?
- Ashur will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Ashur
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