Ashanti
Ashanti is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 99 births. Its best rank was 115th, in 2002.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 990.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 20022,946 births
- Best rank
- #115in 2002
- Since 1970
- 13,253people given the name
The story in the numbers
12,486 girls have been named Ashanti in the United States since 1970, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2002, with 2,946 births — 0.16% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 99 births in 2024, against 2,946 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2002, and the 2000s alone account for 52%. It has spent 19 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 767 boys have also been given it, 5.8% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2002, its biggest year
Ashanti was the 115th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2002 were Emily, Madison, Hannah, Emma and Alexis. See all of 2002.
Names that rose and fell with Ashanti
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Citlallipeak 2001
- Lizbethpeak 2002
- Hallipeak 2000
- Gissellpeak 2000
- Nayelypeak 2001
- Laishapeak 2004
- Nakiyapeak 2001
- Lizbetpeak 2002
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.