Assetou — girls' name
27 babies named Assetou in U.S. Social Security records since 2002, with the highest year being 2017. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
56% of everyone ever named Assetou was born in this single decade.
10 babies were named Assetou in 2017 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Assetou
The Social Security Administration has registered 27 babies named Assetou between 2002 and 2023, spanning 22 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Assetou currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 10 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Assetou performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 15 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Assetou shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Assetou in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Assetou 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 27 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.
Assetou at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Assetou popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–2002
- Peak year (2017)
- 10
- Annual births at peak — across 22 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
27 total births across 22 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2017 with 10 births in a single year.
Assetou by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 15 births that decade — 56% of Assetou's all-time total
Assetou decade highlights
- Peak decade 15 births
- Runner-up 6 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Assetou's strongest decade
15 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 56% of all-time use.
Assetou by state
Where Assetou concentrates geographically — total births since 2002
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 5 | 18.5% |
5 of 27 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 18.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 18.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2002–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.