Ashante — unisex name

What the Data Says About Ashante

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,458 babies named Ashante between 1971 and 2018, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ashante currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 157 babies received it in a single year. Ashante is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 172 additional births since 1976.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ashante performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 619 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Ashante shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 115 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Louisiana and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Ashante in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ashante 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 1,458 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.