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Boy · Basque (modern, uncertain)
Asier
Say it: ah-SYER
Meaning
A 20th-century Basque name; the often-given meaning 'beginning' (from hasiera) is a popular explanation that is not well documented.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 109 babies given this name since 2007
- At its height in 2018, about 1 in 58,400 boys
- 22 babies in 2020
Through the ages
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Where this comes from
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.