Ahasuerus
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The Hebrew name 'Ahasuerus' is derived from the Old Persian name Xšayāršā, which is understood to mean 'hero among kings' or 'ruler over heroes'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ahasuerus is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
- USUnited States≈1 in 43M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 23 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7M (inferred from the name graph)
10 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ahasveros in NL Netherlands.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The Hebrew name 'Ahasuerus' is derived from the Old Persian name Xšayāršā, which is understood to mean 'hero among kings' or 'ruler over heroes'. This is the same name that was rendered in Greek as Xerxes.
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ahasuerus counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 10 | 1 in 1.7M | 10 | Ahasveros | 3 |
| US United States | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 43M | — | Ahasuerus | 23 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Ahasuerus | 6 |
10 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018), counting the spelling ahasuerus. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ahasuerus is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A king of Persia, later identified with Xerxes.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ahasuerus Fromanteelb. 1607GBEnglish clockmaker (1607–1693)
- Ahasuerus Fromanteel jr.b. 1640NLDutch scientific instrument maker and clockmaker
- Ahasuerus van den Bergb. 1733NLDutch poet, writer and theologian
- Nicolaas Ahasuerus Cornelis Pruisb. 1903NL(1903-1965)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 10 | #17,921 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 6 | #38,231 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ahasuerus mean, and where does it come from?
- The Hebrew name 'Ahasuerus' is derived from the Old Persian name Xšayāršā, which is understood to mean 'hero among kings' or 'ruler over heroes'. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- Is Ahasuerus a male or female name?
- Ahasuerus is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ahasuerus have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 10 people named Ahasuerus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ahasveros.
- Where is Ahasuerus most common?
- Ahasuerus is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.7 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ahasuerus?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 10 people named Ahasuerus, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ahasuerusThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ahasuerus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.