Usher is a male first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Usher is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Usher. In the SmartGenius ranking, Usher is #2,517 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Usher.
In fact, the name Usher did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Usher seemed to be more popular than ever in 2012. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,020, 59 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Usher, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Usher was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Usher a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #2,532 - with a total of 44 baby boys. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving boys with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
Meeting a man or boy named Usher is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Usher can be found in only two: Florida and New York. No other state currently has residents named Usher. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Usher living in one state or another. (If your name is Usher and you live outside of Florida or New York, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Usher is in New York, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in New York, only 0.00594% of all male residents are called Usher – that’s just one in 16,842! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 763 men going by that name. So, if your name is Usher, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter U is very rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 0.4% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. Only the letter X is even rarer as the first letter of boys' names. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With five letters, the name Usher is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 0.4% of all boys' names starting with U, all other letters occur on average more than nine times as often. Moreover, of the comparatively few boys' names that start with U, most of them aren't very common either - the most popular one currently is Uriel.
If your name is Usher and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Usher, you can simply say:
Unicorn
Sun
Hat
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Usher
Usher
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Usher sounds like this: