Ashanti
Ashanti was given to 89 girls in 2025, #2,102 among girls’ names; 13,343 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,100 Americans named Ashanti and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 19 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ashanti by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ashanti?
#2,102 among girls’ names, 2025
Ashanti fell from #1,464 in 2015 to #2,102 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 88.0 to 55.4 per million.
2,969 babies in 2002, the peak
Ashanti peaked in 2002, when 2,969 babies were given it (2,946 girls, #115 among girls’ names). The 89 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 89 | #2,102 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 99 | #1,982 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 121 | #1,699 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 120 | #1,732 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 104 | #1,899 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 109 | #1,808 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 161 | #1,395 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 164 | #1,372 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 141 | #1,552 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 161 | #1,434 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 157 | #1,464 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 184 | #1,293 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 209 | #1,149 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 200 | #1,214 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 236 | #1,046 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 233 | #1,063 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 265 | #999 | 0.14 |
| 2008 | 292 | #932 | 0.15 |
| 2007 | 298 | #911 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 303 | #875 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 398 | #695 | 0.22 |
| 2004 | 532 | #534 | 0.29 |
| 2003 | 962 | #325 | 0.53 |
| 2002 | 2,946 | #115 | 1.6 |
| 2001 | 281 | #825 | 0.16 |
| 2000 | 206 | #1,019 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 243 | #879 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 256 | #831 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 267 | #781 | 0.15 |
| 1996 | 313 | #692 | 0.18 |
| 1995 | 242 | #813 | 0.14 |
| 1994 | 225 | #868 | 0.13 |
| 1993 | 219 | #880 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 172 | #1,058 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 123 | #1,331 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 113 | #1,394 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 206 | #891 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 68 | #1,820 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 60 | #1,898 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,952 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 59 | #1,881 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,729 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 91 | #1,319 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 101 | #1,268 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 89 | #1,383 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 191 | #822 | 0.12 |
| 1979 | 175 | #877 | 0.11 |
| 1978 | 53 | #1,862 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,126 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 31 | #2,549 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 29 | #2,615 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 30 | #2,500 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 30 | #2,461 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,067 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,172 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,049 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ashanti a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 13,343 Americans recorded as Ashanti, 94% are girls and 6% boys. In 2025 it went to 89 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ashanti: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ashanti, and how old are they?
13,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 13,343 Americans ever recorded as Ashanti. The median Ashanti alive today is 24 years old; half are between 19 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 10,252 people named Ashanti (9,691 women and girls, 561 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,558 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 | 825 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,460 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,010 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,820 |
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 Ashanti born?
The states with the most babies named Ashanti are Texas, California and New York, with 53% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 12 | #1,811 | 0.6× |
| California | 7 | #2,527 | 0.4× |
| New York | 6 | #1,858 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,385 | 2.1× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,080 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,199 | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,478 | 0.5× |
Where Ashanti is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ashanti is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1970 it was given 3.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Ashanti 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, Ashanti is the most given (78% of them). In 2025 it was given to 89 of their 95 babies (94%), again the most given.
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 Ashanti
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 Ashanti and names like it
- Compare Ashanti and AshanteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAshanti peaked in 2002.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ashanti since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Ashanti.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ashanti alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.