Ashanty
Ashanty was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,380 among girls’ names; 598 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ashanty by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ashanty?
#13,380 among girls’ names, 2025
Ashanty fell from #8,051 in 2015 to #13,380 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 3.7 per million.
74 babies in 2003, the peak
Ashanty peaked in 2003, when 74 girls were given it, #2,281 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,380 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,670 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,473 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,586 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,369 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,571 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,530 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,887 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,485 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,051 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 15 | #7,696 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,628 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,618 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,074 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,751 | 16.9 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,120 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,659 | 16.9 |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,793 | 21.8 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,739 | 21.6 |
| 2005 | 49 | #3,171 | 26.5 |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,888 | 30.0 |
| 2003 | 74 | #2,281 | 40.5 |
| 2002 | 61 | #2,556 | 33.9 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,612 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,288 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,246 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,942 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,621 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,560 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ashanty a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ashanty has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ashanty: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ashanty, and how old are they?
An estimated 592 Americans named Ashanty and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 15 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 600 people named Ashanty (592 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 568 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
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 Ashanty?
Ashanty is a less common spelling of Ashanti: SSA has recorded 598 Ashanty and 13,343 Ashanti since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 17,207 babies since 1880, Ashanty is the fourth most given (3.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 95 babies (6.3%), the second most given that year.
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 Ashanty
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 Ashanty and names like it
- Compare Ashanty and AshantiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAshanty peaked in 2003.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ashanty since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Ashanty.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ashanty alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.