Ashante
Ashante was last recorded in 2018, when 8 babies were given it; 1,630 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,590 Americans named Ashante and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 24 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ashante by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ashante?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,529, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
157 babies in 2002, the peak
Ashante peaked in 2002, when 157 girls were given it, #1,257 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 8 | #11,529 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,554 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,237 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,685 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,185 | under 5 | |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,682 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,571 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,098 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,107 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,128 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 15 | #7,916 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,031 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 35 | #3,997 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,637 | under 5 | |
| 2002 | 157 | #1,257 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 57 | #2,634 | 10 | #6,486 |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,214 | 10 | #6,350 |
| 1999 | 63 | #2,342 | 9 | #6,573 |
| 1998 | 54 | #2,529 | 6 | #8,554 |
| 1997 | 71 | #2,003 | 9 | #6,123 |
| 1996 | 93 | #1,640 | 9 | #6,013 |
| 1995 | 59 | #2,242 | 12 | #4,806 |
| 1994 | 69 | #2,025 | 15 | #4,103 |
| 1993 | 59 | #2,213 | 10 | #5,380 |
| 1992 | 69 | #1,984 | 10 | #5,258 |
| 1991 | 48 | #2,548 | 7 | #6,561 |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,226 | 5 | #8,189 |
| 1989 | 47 | #2,438 | 7 | #6,262 |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,223 | 6 | #6,474 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,529 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,739 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 20 | #3,990 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,335 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,902 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,657 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,075 | 8 | #4,540 |
| 1980 | 28 | #3,072 | 10 | #3,855 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,152 | 10 | #3,824 |
| 1978 | 8 | #6,987 | 5 | #5,854 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,551 | 8 | #4,201 |
| 1976 | under 5 | 6 | #4,973 | |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,054 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,385 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,125 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,382 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,661 | under 5 |
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 Ashante a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,630 Americans recorded as Ashante, 89% are girls and 11% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ashante: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ashante, and how old are they?
1,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,630 Americans ever recorded as Ashante. The median Ashante alive today is 30 years old; half are between 24 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 1,318 people named Ashante (1,171 women and girls, 147 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,602 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 | 139 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 719 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 702 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 32 |
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 Ashante born?
The states with the most babies named Ashante are New York, Louisiana and Florida, with 51% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 115 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Louisiana | 73 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Florida | 61 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 61 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 32 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 31 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 27 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 23 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 18 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| South Carolina | 10 | not ranked | 0.5× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Ashante with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 17,207 babies since 1880, Ashante is the second most given (9.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 95 babies recorded by SSA was a Ashante (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 Ashante
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 Ashante and names like it
- Compare Ashante and AshantiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAshante peaked in 2002.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ashante since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Ashante.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ashante alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.