Ashanti — #1981 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Ashanti

The Social Security Administration has registered 12,486 babies named Ashanti between 1970 and 2024, spanning 55 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ashanti currently holds the #1981 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 2,946 babies received it in a single year. Ashanti is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 767 additional births since 1970.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ashanti performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 6,483 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Ashanti shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Florida, which accounts for 1,151 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Ashanti in 40 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ashanti 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 12,486 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.