Asher or Michael
Asher is the more popular boy name in Canada, #47 to #53 in 2024. Michael ranks #85 among boy names in England and Wales for 2025, while Asher does not make that list. Michael is the more popular boy name in the USA, #18 to #20 in 2024. The two countries disagree on which is ahead.
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.
Places that rank only one of the two names, or rank either outside the top 1,000, are listed below but not plotted.
| Place | Year | Asher | Michael | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2024 | #47 | #53 | Asher |
| England and Wales | 2025 | unranked | #85 | Michael |
| USA | 2024 | #20 | #18 | Michael |
| Alberta | 2024 | #32 | #65 | Asher |
| British Columbia | 2024 | #34 | #70 | Asher |
| Ontario | 2024 | #40 | #51 | Asher |
| Quebec | 2024 | #425 | #116 | Michael |
Asher and Michael in Canada, 2020–2024
Asher climbed from #51 in 2020 to #47 in 2024 in Canada. Michael slipped from #40 in 2020 to #53 in 2024 in Canada. Asher passed Michael in 2021. Michael passed Asher in 2022. Asher passed Michael in 2024.
Asher and Michael in England and Wales, 2020–2025
Asher does not appear on any complete England and Wales list in this range. Michael slipped from #74 in 2020 to #85 in 2025 in England and Wales.
Asher and Michael in the USA, 2020–2024
Asher climbed from #32 in 2020 to #20 in 2024 in the USA. Michael slipped from #12 in 2020 to #18 in 2024 in the USA.
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.