Ashanta
Ashanta was last recorded in 2008, when 6 babies were given it; 603 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ashanta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ashanta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,629, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
67 babies in 2002, the peak
Ashanta peaked in 2002, when 67 girls were given it, #2,384 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6 | #15,629 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,942 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,554 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,971 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,250 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,116 | 17.5 |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,384 | 37.3 |
| 2001 | 15 | #6,990 | 8.3 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,234 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,863 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 13 | #7,146 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,887 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,549 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 15 | #5,987 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,001 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,835 | 11.1 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,498 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,010 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,491 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,125 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,499 | 10.7 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,624 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 15 | #4,985 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,057 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,336 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,254 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,656 | 13.0 |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,347 | 15.0 |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,607 | 21.7 |
| 1979 | 34 | #2,625 | 21.2 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,237 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,244 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,381 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,031 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,714 | 4.8 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,660 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ashanta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ashanta has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 36 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ashanta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ashanta, and how old are they?
An estimated 586 Americans named Ashanta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 25 and 45. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 498 people named Ashanta (476 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 591 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 17,207 babies since 1880, Ashanta is the third most given (3.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 95 babies recorded by SSA was a Ashanta (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ashanta
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.
More about Ashanta and names like it
- Compare Ashanta and AshantiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAshanta peaked in 2002.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ashanta since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Ashanta.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ashanta alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.