Meaning not yet researched.
Asante: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 46 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,346 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,346 in 1997; #2,769 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Asante in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,769 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #1,346.
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Asante: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 46 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,346 in 1997 · most boys in one year: 83 (1997).
In 2025, 46 US boys were named Asante, making it the 2,769th most common boys’ name of the year, down 15 places from #2,754 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 47 boys named Asante in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,346, reached in 1997. That year also had the most boys given the name: 83. For comparison, it was #5,308 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Asante in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #4,068, reached in 1996. That year also had the most girls given the name: 26. For comparison, it was #16,740 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Asante in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 5 babies. In all, 1,500 US babies have been given the name, 17% of them girls and 83% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 479 babies named Asante.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 341 US boys were named Asante; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 47. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,132 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Asante ranked highest in California in 2025, at #2,232 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Assante, Asonte and Aseante are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Assante (33), Asonte (16), Aseante (5), Azante (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Asante in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,232 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 46 | #2,769 |
| 2024 | — | — | 47 | #2,754 |
| 2023 | — | — | 45 | #2,810 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,384 | 38 | #3,157 |
| 2021 | — | — | 35 | #3,306 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,347 | 44 | #2,763 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,823 | 36 | #3,205 |
| 2018 | — | — | 20 | #4,753 |
| 2017 | — | — | 15 | #5,823 |
| 2016 | — | — | 15 | #5,815 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,740 | 17 | #5,308 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,802 | 32 | #3,381 |
| 2013 | — | — | 35 | #3,131 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,193 | 38 | #3,008 |
| 2011 | — | — | 43 | #2,755 |
| 2010 | — | — | 53 | #2,375 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,571 | 38 | #3,050 |
| 2008 | — | — | 50 | #2,518 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,913 | 38 | #3,029 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,363 | 18 | #4,873 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,974 | 22 | #4,066 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,797 | 7 | #9,008 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,115 | 16 | #4,829 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,877 | 21 | #3,918 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,442 | 37 | #2,565 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,978 | 30 | #2,923 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,527 | 44 | #2,140 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,751 | 39 | #2,277 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,444 | 83 | #1,346 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,068 | 65 | #1,534 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,129 | 29 | #2,559 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,662 | 32 | #2,397 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,910 | 28 | #2,583 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,565 | 16 | #3,762 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,637 | 13 | #4,249 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,554 | 10 | #5,018 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #5,668 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #7,362 |
| 1986 | — | — | 10 | #4,150 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,407 | — | — |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #4,956 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #6,442 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,111 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #5,653 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,529 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).