Meaning not yet researched.
Ashanti: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 89 in 2025. Its best rank was #115 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #115 in 2002; #2,102 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ashanti in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,102 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #115.
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Ashanti: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 89 girls in 2025. Peak: #115 in 2002 · most girls in one year: 2,946 (2002).
In 2025, 89 US girls were named Ashanti, making it the 2,102nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 120 places from #1,982 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 99 girls named Ashanti in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #115, reached in 2002. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,946. For comparison, it was #1,464 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ashanti in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 28 babies. In all, 13,343 US babies have been given the name, 94% of them girls and 5.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 6,584 babies named Ashanti.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,269 US girls were named Ashanti; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 164. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,059 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ashanti ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #1,080 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Ashanty, Ashaunti and Ashunti are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ashanty (598), Ashaunti (374), Ashunti (301), Ashonti (230), Ashantee (128), Ashantia (71), Ashantie (52), Ashantii (21), Ahshanti (5), Ashantey (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 Ashanti in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 6 | #1,080 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,199 | #1,088 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,385 | #697 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,479 | — |
| Texas | 12 | #1,811 | #1,631 |
| New York | 6 | #1,858 | #1,501 |
| California | 7 | #2,527 | #2,335 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 89 | #2,102 | — | — |
| 2024 | 99 | #1,982 | — | — |
| 2023 | 121 | #1,699 | — | — |
| 2022 | 120 | #1,732 | — | — |
| 2021 | 104 | #1,899 | — | — |
| 2020 | 109 | #1,808 | — | — |
| 2019 | 161 | #1,395 | 5 | #12,313 |
| 2018 | 164 | #1,372 | — | — |
| 2017 | 141 | #1,552 | — | — |
| 2016 | 161 | #1,434 | — | — |
| 2015 | 157 | #1,464 | 5 | #12,243 |
| 2014 | 184 | #1,293 | — | — |
| 2013 | 209 | #1,149 | — | — |
| 2012 | 200 | #1,214 | — | — |
| 2011 | 236 | #1,046 | 5 | #12,446 |
| 2010 | 233 | #1,063 | — | — |
| 2009 | 265 | #999 | 9 | #8,356 |
| 2008 | 292 | #932 | — | — |
| 2007 | 298 | #911 | 9 | #8,233 |
| 2006 | 303 | #875 | — | — |
| 2005 | 398 | #695 | — | — |
| 2004 | 532 | #534 | 10 | #7,015 |
| 2003 | 962 | #325 | 6 | #9,674 |
| 2002 | 2,946 | #115 | 23 | #3,673 |
| 2001 | 281 | #825 | 24 | #3,519 |
| 2000 | 206 | #1,021 | 20 | #3,926 |
| 1999 | 243 | #880 | 27 | #3,036 |
| 1998 | 256 | #831 | 28 | #2,858 |
| 1997 | 267 | #781 | 22 | #3,266 |
| 1996 | 313 | #692 | 35 | #2,301 |
| 1995 | 242 | #814 | 37 | #2,180 |
| 1994 | 225 | #869 | 34 | #2,308 |
| 1993 | 219 | #881 | 38 | #2,094 |
| 1992 | 172 | #1,060 | 23 | #2,912 |
| 1991 | 123 | #1,335 | 20 | #3,113 |
| 1990 | 113 | #1,398 | 17 | #3,475 |
| 1989 | 206 | #894 | 22 | #2,793 |
| 1988 | 68 | #1,822 | 15 | #3,368 |
| 1987 | 60 | #1,899 | 14 | #3,352 |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,953 | 9 | #4,485 |
| 1985 | 59 | #1,882 | 7 | #5,183 |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,729 | 18 | #2,617 |
| 1983 | 91 | #1,319 | 12 | #3,426 |
| 1982 | 101 | #1,268 | 16 | #2,842 |
| 1981 | 89 | #1,383 | 16 | #2,791 |
| 1980 | 191 | #822 | 21 | #2,372 |
| 1979 | 175 | #877 | 40 | #1,489 |
| 1978 | 53 | #1,862 | 26 | #1,919 |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,126 | 25 | #1,953 |
| 1976 | 31 | #2,550 | 18 | #2,423 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,615 | 20 | #2,211 |
| 1974 | 30 | #2,500 | 32 | #1,548 |
| 1973 | 30 | #2,461 | 18 | #2,225 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,067 | 19 | #2,087 |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,172 | 8 | #3,682 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,050 | 14 | #2,515 |
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).