Ashantee
Ashantee was last recorded in 2010, when 7 babies were given it; 128 Americans have been recorded with it between 1995 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ashantee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ashantee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,633, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
31 babies in 2002, the peak
Ashantee peaked in 2002, when 31 girls were given it, #4,074 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7 | #13,633 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,557 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,096 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,761 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,782 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,393 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,624 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,074 | 17.3 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,214 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,286 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 7 | #11,245 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,395 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,963 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,651 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ashantee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ashantee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ashantee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ashantee, and how old are they?
An estimated 126 Americans named Ashantee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 21 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 152 people named Ashantee (143 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 127 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Ashantee?
Ashantee is a less common spelling of Ashanti: SSA has recorded 128 Ashantee and 13,343 Ashanti since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,605 babies since 1880, Ashantee is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 95 babies recorded by SSA was a Ashantee (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 Ashantee
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 Ashantee and names like it
- Compare Ashantee and AshantiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAshantee peaked in 2002.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ashantee since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Ashantee.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ashantee alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.