Asante
#2,768 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Asante has been given to 1,500 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #2,768 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 83 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 83% boys, 17% girls all-time.
Babies named Asante, 2025
1 in 72,100
Asante over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Asante over time
In 2025, Asante went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Asante?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 72,100
- 46 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 37,100
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,768
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 49,955 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Asante sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 49,955 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Asante. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Asantes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Asante was born before 2008 — so the typical Asante is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 28.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 64.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,246
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 28.8% of all recorded uses (359).
Is Asante rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −14
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −6
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,536
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.71×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 55.4%
- Peak was 1997 (83)
- Years since peak
- 28
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.0% average annual change
Spellings of Asante
Asante is not the most common spelling — Dante is, with 75.0% against Asante's 1.8%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Asante is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Asante was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 411,096 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Connecticut1 in —
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4Georgia1 in —
- 5Illinois1 in —
- 6New Jersey1 in —
- 7New York1 in —
- 8Ohio1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Asante has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Asante is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Asante was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,668,796 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Asante has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Asante around the world
Where Asante ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2007–2025#3,256in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Asante by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Asante
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Asante
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.