Ashante
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ashante has been given to 1,630 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 157 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% girls, 11% boys all-time.
Babies named Ashante, 2018
1 in 440,000
Ashante 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Ashante over time
In 2018, Ashante went to 100% girls and 0% 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 Ashante?
Ashante had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2018
- 1 in 440,000
- 8 of 3,516,853 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2018
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 304,713 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ashante sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 304,713 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ashante. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ashantes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ashante was born before 1996 — so the typical Ashante is around 29 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 42.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 63.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,458
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 42.5% of all recorded uses (619).
Is Ashante 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 (157)
- Years since peak
- 23
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 41.6% average annual change
Spellings of Ashante
Ashante is not the most common spelling — Ashanti is, with 22.1% against Ashante's 2.6%.
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 Ashante is used
Across 1910–2025, Ashante was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 218,958 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (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. Ashante has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ashante around the world
Where Ashante 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 & Wales1996–2010#5,707in 2010
- Canada2002–2003#2,681in 2003
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Ashante by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Ashante
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ashante
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.