Asanti — unisex name
249 babies named Asanti in U.S. Social Security records since 1997, with the highest year being 2002. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
50% of everyone ever named Asanti was born in this single decade.
23 babies were named Asanti in 2002 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Asanti
The Social Security Administration has registered 249 babies named Asanti between 1997 and 2023, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Asanti currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 23 babies received it in a single year. Asanti is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 56 additional births since 1995.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Asanti performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 124 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Asanti shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.
No etymological entry is currently available for Asanti in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 249 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Asanti at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Asanti popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1997
- Peak year (2002)
- 23
- Annual births at peak — across 27 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
249 total births across 27 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2002 with 23 births in a single year.
Asanti popularity over time — boys
56 total births recorded since 1995 (Asanti as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Asanti accounts for 18% of total recorded use across both genders.
Asanti by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 124 births that decade — 50% of Asanti's all-time total
Asanti decade highlights
- Peak decade 124 births
- Runner-up 82 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Asanti's strongest decade
124 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 50% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1997–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.