Tashanti — girls' name
115 babies named Tashanti in U.S. Social Security records since 1983, with the highest year being 2002. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
96% of everyone ever named Tashanti was born in this single decade.
43 babies were named Tashanti in 2002 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Tashanti
The Social Security Administration has registered 115 babies named Tashanti between 1983 and 2007, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tashanti currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2007. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 43 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Tashanti performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 110 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Tashanti shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Tashanti in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Tashanti 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 115 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.
Tashanti at a glance
Last recorded 2007Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Tashanti popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2007–1983
- Peak year (2002)
- 43
- Annual births at peak — across 25 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2007.
115 total births across 25 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2002 with 43 births in a single year.
Tashanti by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 110 births that decade — 96% of Tashanti's all-time total
Tashanti decade highlights
- Peak decade 110 births
- Runner-up 5 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Tashanti's strongest decade
110 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 96% of all-time use.
Tashanti by state
Where Tashanti concentrates geographically — total births since 1983
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Illinois | | 5 | 4.3% |
5 of 115 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Illinois 4.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Illinois accounts for 4.3% 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, 1983–2007 (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.