girls:
1.5k births since 1971
#4280 (25th percentile)
boys:
172 births since 1976
#4414 (4th percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1971
#6116 (21st percentile)
The name Ashante is the #6,116 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,630 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 21.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,280 (25.1% percentile) for all time with 1,458 births since 1971. For boys, it ranks #4,414 (3.7% percentile) for all time with 172 births since 1976.
Ashante first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for girls and 1976 for boys). Birth data for Ashante is available in 46 out of the 48 years between 1971 and 2018 (45 years for girls and 20 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 Ashante has been given predominantly to girls, with 89.4% of all recorded births being female. In 2018, 100.0% of babies named Ashante were girls.
For girls, Ashante reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 17.0% percentile (ranked #742) with 79 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 79 births per million (ranked 17.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
For boys, Ashante reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #766) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ashante".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Ashante. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 39.0% confident that Ashante is pronounced as uh-SHAHN-tay, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is a-SHAHN-tay, at 19.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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