Jashanti — girls' name

What the Data Says About Jashanti

The Social Security Administration has registered 153 babies named Jashanti between 2002 and 2011, spanning 10 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jashanti currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2011. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 63 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jashanti performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 141 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Jashanti shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Florida, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Alabama. In total, SSA state-level files list Jashanti in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jashanti 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 153 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.