girls:
249 births since 1985
#5467 (4th percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1975
#3451 (25th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1975
#6342 (18th percentile)
The name Asante is the #6,342 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,401 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 18.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,451 (24.7% percentile) for all time with 1,152 births since 1975. For girls, it ranks #5,467 (4.3% percentile) for all time with 249 births since 1985.
Asante first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (1975 for boys and 1985 for girls). Birth data for Asante is available in 43 out of the 49 years between 1975 and 2023 (42 years for boys and 25 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Asante has been given predominantly to boys, with 82.2% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Asante were boys.
For boys, Asante reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 9.9% percentile (ranked #714) with 42 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 42 births per million (ranked 9.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Asante ranks #871 for boys (4.4% percentile) with 25 births per million, which is 59.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Asante reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 2.4% percentile (ranked #838) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Asante".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Asante. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.8% confident that Asante is pronounced as uh-SAHN-tee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-SAHN-tay, at 26.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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