Asante
Asante is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 46 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 460.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 199783 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1975
- 1,448people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,199 boys have been named Asante in the United States since 1975, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1997, with 83 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 1990s alone account for 30%.
Asante is used for both sexes: 17% of its bearers are girls (249), most of them born around 1996.
By decade
In 1997, its biggest year
Asante was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1997 were Michael, Jacob, Matthew, Christopher and Joshua. See all of 1997.
Names that rose and fell with Asante
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Romellopeak 1995
- Maleekpeak 1997
- Tigerpeak 2010
- Khaleelpeak 1999
- Stonepeak 1999
- Kahlilpeak 1995
- Dangelopeak 1996
- Derianpeak 1996
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.