Ashanta — girls' name

What the Data Says About Ashanta

The Social Security Administration has registered 597 babies named Ashanta between 1971 and 2008, spanning 38 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ashanta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 67 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ashanta performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 184 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Ashanta shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 24 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Mississippi and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Ashanta in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ashanta 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 597 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.