Meaning Door keeper Gender Male Origin British The name Usher is boy's name of English origin meaning "doorkeeper". Strongly associated with the mega-popular single-named singer, who was actually the fourth Usher Raymond in his family. He could start a fad. Tags Celebrity Modern Singer Fictional Character Add new comment Your name Comment About text formats Plain text No HTML tags allowed. Lines and paragraphs break automatically. Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically. Leave this field blank Fav this