Ashanta
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ashanta has been given to 603 babies in the U.S. since 1971. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2002, with 67 recorded.
Babies named Ashanta, 2008
1 in 655,000
Ashanta 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ashanta?
Ashanta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2008
- 1 in 655,000
- 6 of 3,930,727 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 315,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2008
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 454,097 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ashanta sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 454,097 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ashanta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ashantas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ashanta was born before 1991 — so the typical Ashanta is around 34 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 30.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 69.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 597
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 30.8% of all recorded uses (184).
Is Ashanta 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2002 (67)
- Years since peak
- 23
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 46.7% average annual change
Spellings of Ashanta
Ashanta is not the most common spelling — Shana is, with 19.6% against Ashanta's 0.39%.
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 Ashanta is used
Across 1910–2025, Ashanta was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 611,625 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 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. Ashanta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ashanta around the world
Where Ashanta 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 & Wales2002–2002#3,409in 2002
- South Australia2003–2003#739in 2003
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Ashanta by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Ashanta
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ashanta
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.