Ashante
Ashante is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 2002157 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1971
- 1,630people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,458 girls have been named Ashante in the United States since 1971, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2002, with 157 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 157 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1996, and the 1990s alone account for 42%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 172 boys have also been given it, 11% of the total.
By decade
In 2002, its biggest year
Ashante was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2002 were Emily, Madison, Hannah, Emma and Alexis. See all of 2002.
Names that rose and fell with Ashante
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Poojapeak 1997
- Brieannapeak 1994
- Shalynpeak 2000
- Kionnapeak 1994
- Jakiapeak 2000
- Verenicepeak 1993
- Ravinpeak 1993
- Cassadypeak 1999
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.