Usher
Usher was given to 78 boys in 2025, #1,974 among boys’ names; 1,306 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,260 Americans named Usher and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 6 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Usher by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Usher?
#1,974 among boys’ names, 2025
Usher rose from #2,715 in 2015 to #1,974 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 23.5 to 45.7 per million.
78 babies in 2025, the peak
Usher peaked in 2025, when 78 boys were given it, #1,974 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 63 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78 | #1,974 | 45.7 |
| 2024 | 63 | #2,287 | 36.6 |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,340 | 35.1 |
| 2022 | 44 | #2,914 | 25.2 |
| 2021 | 43 | #2,914 | 24.6 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,131 | 21.4 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,334 | 32.9 |
| 2018 | 36 | #3,232 | 19.8 |
| 2017 | 34 | #3,369 | 18.4 |
| 2016 | 41 | #2,929 | 21.6 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 45 | #2,715 | 23.5 |
| 2014 | 31 | #3,524 | 16.1 |
| 2013 | 41 | #2,841 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,234 | 31.1 |
| 2011 | 44 | #2,742 | 23.2 |
| 2010 | 32 | #3,445 | 16.7 |
| 2009 | 36 | #3,218 | 18.1 |
| 2008 | 45 | #2,750 | 22.1 |
| 2007 | 35 | #3,242 | 16.9 |
| 2006 | 38 | #2,976 | 18.5 |
| 2005 | 46 | #2,486 | 23.0 |
| 2004 | 43 | #2,563 | 21.7 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,241 | 7.6 |
| 2002 | 29 | #3,180 | 14.9 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,286 | 9.8 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,764 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,973 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 22 | #3,478 | 11.5 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,724 | 10.1 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,463 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,257 | 7.9 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,933 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,745 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,209 | 5.5 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,484 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 6 | #8,059 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,884 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,429 | 2.6 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,896 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,527 | 2.7 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,976 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,933 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 6 | #6,019 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,737 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,814 | 3.7 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,858 | 4.7 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,514 | 2.3 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,483 | 3.4 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,791 | 5.1 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,651 | 5.8 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,681 | 4.5 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,787 | 4.5 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,724 | 7.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Usher a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Usher has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Usher: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Usher, and how old are they?
1,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,306 Americans ever recorded as Usher. The median Usher alive today is 14 years old; half are between 6 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 880 people named Usher (18 women and girls, 862 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 952 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 21 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 17 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 102 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 509 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 608 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Usher born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 64 | #297 | 11.3× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,014 | 0.2× |
Where Usher is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Usher is most over-represented in New York: since 1914 it was given 11.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Usher with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Usher
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Usher and names like it
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- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Usher.
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