Ashanti

“From Asante — the Ashanti region and people of Ghana” — Akan/Twi (region name Asante, Ghana) origin

Girl's name · #2102 in the US (2025) · 2000s

Ashanti reached #115 in 2002 and has faded to #2102 since. In a single year its births jumped from about 280 in 2001 to 2,900 in 2002 — the year the singer Ashanti's debut album opened at #1 and 'Foolish' spent ten weeks atop the charts.

Around the world: about 1 in 19,000 girls in France (2025).

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 14 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Ashantis

Ashanti — American singer and songwriter (born 1980)
Ashanti Obi — Nigerian sprinter
Ashanti Johnson — American geochemist and chemical oceanographer
Ashanti Akpan — English footballer
Ashanti Moore — Jamaican sprinter

What Ashantis become

Among 31 notable people named Ashanti:

Sports figures appear 3.6× more often than among typical names — e.g. Ashanti Akpan, English footballer.

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