Asher or Henry

Henry is the more popular boy name in Canada, #12 to #47 in 2024. Henry ranks #13 among boy names in England and Wales for 2025, while Asher does not make that list. Henry is the more popular boy name in the USA, #6 to #20 in 2024.

Place by place

Each place ranks its own registered births, so the two names are compared inside one list at a time, in that place's most recent complete year.

Where each place ranks Asher against Henry, in that place's most recent complete year.AsherHenry#1#100#250#500Canada#47 → #12 ↑35USA#20 → #6 ↑14Alberta#32 → #5 ↑27British Columbia#34 → #8 ↑26Ontario#40 → #6 ↑34Quebec#425 → #96 ↑329

Places that rank only one of the two names, or rank either outside the top 1,000, are listed below but not plotted.

PlaceYear Asher Henry Ahead
Canada2024#47#12Henry
England and Wales2025unranked#13Henry
USA2024#20#6Henry
Alberta2024#32#5Henry
British Columbia2024#34#8Henry
Ontario2024#40#6Henry
Quebec2024#425#96Henry

Asher and Henry in Canada, 2020–2024

Asher climbed from #51 in 2020 to #47 in 2024 in Canada. Henry climbed from #19 in 2020 to #12 in 2024 in Canada.

Asher and Henry ranked by year in Canada, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#100#12 Henry#47 Asher20202021202220232024

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Asher and Henry in England and Wales, 2020–2025

Asher does not appear on any complete England and Wales list in this range. Henry slipped from #11 in 2020 to #13 in 2025 in England and Wales.

Asher and Henry ranked by year in England and Wales, 2020 to 2025.#1#20#13 Henry202020212022202320242025

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Asher and Henry in the USA, 2020–2024

Asher climbed from #32 in 2020 to #20 in 2024 in the USA. Henry climbed from #9 in 2020 to #6 in 2024 in the USA.

Asher and Henry ranked by year in USA, 2020 to 2024.#1#50#6 Henry#20 Asher20202021202220232024

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Other comparisons

How this comparison is built

Both names are ranked by how many babies were registered with that exact spelling, so every position here counts real births rather than votes or searches. Rank is the only measure every source publishes, so it is what the charts plot; birth counts are not released for every place.

A place appears only in the years it published a complete list, which is why a name can be missing from a year it was almost certainly given to some babies. See every head-to-head on the site, or the ranked lists these names come from.