Given name
Alisher
“Ali”·“lion”
Alisher is a masculine given name from Classical Persian. It is used in Uzbek.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Alisher is built from elements meaning “Ali” and “lion”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Classical Persian عَلِیشیر, built from Arabic عَلِيّ + Classical Persian شیر (“lion”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2014. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Alisher through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 35
- 35 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 2014. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 459 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Alisher
- Alisher UsmanovRussian billionaireborn 1953
- Alisher YusupovUzbekistani judokaborn 1998
- Alisher OdilovUzbekistani association football playerborn 2001
- Alisher SaʼdullayevUzbek politicianborn 1994
- Alisher Dzhalilovfootballerborn 1993
- Alisher YergaliKazakhstani amateur wrestlerborn 1999
- Alisher GanievUzbek amateur wrestler (born 2005)born 2004
- Alisher UzoqovUzbek actor, singer and soccer playerborn 1984
- Alisher QodirovUzbek politicianborn 1975
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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