girls:
249 births since 1997
#5467 (4th percentile)
boys:
56 births since 1995
#4530 (1st percentile)
overall:
305 births since 1995
#7434 (4th percentile)
The name Asanti is the #7,434 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 305 recorded births since 1995. This represents the 3.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,467 (4.3% percentile) for all time with 249 births since 1997. For boys, it ranks #4,530 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 56 births since 1995.
Asanti first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1995 (1995 for boys and 1997 for girls). Birth data for Asanti is available in 26 out of the 29 years between 1995 and 2023 (24 years for girls and 7 years for boys). 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 Asanti has been given predominantly to girls, with 81.6% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Asanti were girls. Interestingly, until around 2000, the name was more popular for boys (54.3% boys from 1995 to 1999), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (88.0% girls from 2000 to 2023).
For girls, Asanti reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #876) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Asanti ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 29.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Asanti reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #785) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Asanti".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Asanti. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.8% confident that Asanti is pronounced as uh-SAHN-tee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ah-SAHN-tee, at 22.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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