Nashanti
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nashanti has been given to 75 babies in the U.S. since 1998. 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 29 recorded.
Babies named Nashanti, 2010
1 in 739,000
Nashanti 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nashanti?
Nashanti had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2010
- 1 in 739,000
- 5 of 3,695,928 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 355,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2010
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 512,366 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nashanti sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2010 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 512,366 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nashanti. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nashantis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nashanti was born before 2003 — so the typical Nashanti is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 86.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 75
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 86.7% of all recorded uses (65).
Is Nashanti 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2002 (29)
- Years since peak
- 23
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 46.8% average annual change
Spellings of Nashanti
Nashanti is not the most common spelling — Ashanti is, with 71.1% against Nashanti's 0.42%.
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.
Nashanti around the world
Where Nashanti 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.
- South Australia2002–2002#730in 2002
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Nashanti by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nashanti
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nashanti
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.