Uszer
A Hebrew name, a form of Asher meaning "happy, blessed". In Poland it barely exists: only about a dozen men carry it, and no boys have been given it in years.
Uszer Pronunciation
Uszer is pronounced OO-sher (/ˈuʂɛr/).
What Uszer means
Where Uszer comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
"Uszer" comes from the Hebrew name Asher, written אָשֵׁר, meaning happy or blessed. In the Book of Genesis, Asher is the eighth son of Jacob, and his name stands behind one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Among Yiddish-speaking Jews in Poland, that older name settled into this spelling.
The meaning sits right at the root. In Genesis, Leah names the boy Asher after saying "Happy am I," so the word and the name arrive together. The Hebrew osher means happiness. A child called Uszer holds the plain sense of szczęśliwy, happy, as his own.
On a Polish school register, the name stood apart from the Jaceks and Piotrs, foreign in look yet ordinary in daily use. Uszer had no Polish diminutive of its own. It stayed as it was, Asher in older dress.
How many people are named Uszer
1 in 1778849 men in Poland is named Uszer. 12 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #14616 among male names.