Last name: ASHER
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ASHER : This last name is indexed 33,104 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
ASHER : 1: English (mainly southern): topographic name denoting someone living by an ash tree from Middle English asche ‘ash tree’ + the habitational suffix -er.2: English: possibly from the Middle English personal name Ascher a survival of the rare Old English name Æschere.3: English: perhaps from the Anglo-Norman and Middle English personal name Asser Atser (Old Norse Qzurr Azur).4: Jewish: from the Biblical personal name Asher (Genesis 30:13) meaning ‘blessed’ in Hebrew.5: Americanized form of German Ascher.
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