# Ashanti (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ashanti/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 13,343 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 767 / 12,576 (94% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 600, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 236 | 1,046 |
| 2012 | 200 | 1,214 |
| 2013 | 209 | 1,149 |
| 2014 | 184 | 1,293 |
| 2015 | 157 | 1,464 |
| 2016 | 161 | 1,434 |
| 2017 | 141 | 1,552 |
| 2018 | 164 | 1,372 |
| 2019 | 161 | 1,395 |
| 2020 | 109 | 1,808 |
| 2021 | 104 | 1,899 |
| 2022 | 120 | 1,732 |
| 2023 | 121 | 1,699 |
| 2024 | 99 | 1,982 |
| 2025 | 89 | 2,102 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 37 | 2,180 |
| 1996 | 35 | 2,301 |
| 1997 | 22 | 3,266 |
| 1998 | 28 | 2,858 |
| 1999 | 27 | 3,036 |
| 2000 | 20 | 3,926 |
| 2001 | 24 | 3,519 |
| 2002 | 23 | 3,673 |
| 2003 | 6 | 9,674 |
| 2004 | 10 | 7,015 |
| 2007 | 9 | 8,233 |
| 2009 | 9 | 8,356 |
| 2011 | 5 | 12,446 |
| 2015 | 5 | 12,243 |
| 2019 | 5 | 12,313 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 29 | 1,149 |
| 2012 | 18 | 1,649 |
| 2013 | 19 | 1,587 |
| 2014 | 18 | 1,628 |
| 2015 | 11 | 2,328 |
| 2016 | 12 | 2,233 |
| 2017 | 8 | 2,925 |
| 2018 | 13 | 2,090 |
| 2019 | 10 | 2,458 |
| 2020 | 12 | 2,163 |
| 2021 | 13 | 2,073 |
| 2022 | 16 | 1,767 |
| 2023 | 12 | 2,201 |
| 2024 | 11 | 2,411 |
| 2025 | 8 | 3,035 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 3 | 2,859 |

## People named Ashanti

- Ashanti Omowali Alston, American anarchist activist (1954-)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.