Asante
Asante was given to 46 boys in 2025, #2,768 among boys’ names; 1,500 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,470 Americans named Asante and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Asante by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Asante?
#2,768 among boys’ names, 2025
Asante rose from #5,304 in 2015 to #2,768 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 8.9 to 26.9 per million.
101 babies in 1997, the peak
Asante peaked in 1997, when 101 babies were given it (83 boys, #1,343 among boys’ names). The 46 births of 2025 are 46% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 46 | #2,768 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 47 | #2,754 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 45 | #2,809 | |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,379 | 38 | #3,155 |
| 2021 | under 5 | 35 | #3,304 | |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,342 | 44 | #2,762 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,818 | 36 | #3,202 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 20 | #4,749 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 15 | #5,819 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 15 | #5,811 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #16,734 | 17 | #5,304 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,796 | 32 | #3,379 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 35 | #3,129 | |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,186 | 38 | #3,006 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 43 | #2,754 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 53 | #2,374 | |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,566 | 38 | #3,049 |
| 2008 | under 5 | 50 | #2,517 | |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,909 | 38 | #3,027 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,358 | 18 | #4,869 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,968 | 22 | #4,061 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,791 | 7 | #9,002 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,110 | 16 | #4,824 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,871 | 21 | #3,913 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,435 | 37 | #2,560 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,970 | 30 | #2,917 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,521 | 44 | #2,137 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,746 | 39 | #2,274 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,440 | 83 | #1,343 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,063 | 65 | #1,531 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,124 | 29 | #2,554 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,656 | 32 | #2,392 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,904 | 28 | #2,577 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,558 | 16 | #3,755 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,630 | 13 | #4,242 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,548 | 10 | #5,011 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 8 | #5,661 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 5 | #7,355 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 10 | #4,146 | |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,404 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 7 | #4,953 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #6,440 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 6 | #5,108 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 5 | #5,651 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #5,527 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Asante a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,500 Americans recorded as Asante, 17% are girls and 83% boys. In 2025 it went to 46 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Asante: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Asante, and how old are they?
1,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,500 Americans ever recorded as Asante. The median Asante alive today is 19 years old; half are between 11 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 1,108 people named Asante (274 women and girls, 834 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,225 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 15 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 298 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 702 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 459 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Asante born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,232 | 0.5× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Asante with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Asante
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
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