girls:
12.4k births since 1970
#1410 (75th percentile)
boys:
767 births since 1970
#3820 (17th percentile)
overall:
13.2k births since 1970
#2292 (70th percentile)
The name Ashanti is the #2,292 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,152 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 70.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,410 (75.3% percentile) for all time with 12,385 births since 1970. For boys, it ranks #3,820 (16.7% percentile) for all time with 767 births since 1970.
Ashanti first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 .
The name Ashanti has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 94.2% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1971, the name was more popular for boys (50.0% boys from 1970 to 1970), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (94.3% girls from 1971 to 2023).
For girls, Ashanti reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 87.2% percentile (ranked #115) with 1,492 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 1,492 births per million (ranked 87.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2006, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Ashanti ranks #831 for girls (12.3% percentile) with 69 births per million, which is 4.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Ashanti reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 5.1% percentile (ranked #653) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 22 births per million (ranked 5.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ashanti".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ashanti. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 56.4% confident that Ashanti is pronounced as uh-SHAHN-tee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-SHAN-tee, at 43.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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