Ashantee
Girl · a-SHAN-tee · Akan
Ashantee is a girls' name of Akan origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.
What does Ashantee mean?
Akan: spelling of Ashanti; from the Ashanti (Asante) people and region of Ghana
The Ashanti are an Akan people of Ghana whose historic kingdom had its capital at Kumasi.
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- a-SHAN-tee
Meaning borrowed from Ashanti.
Is Ashantee a girl's or a boy's name?
Ashantee is a girls' name.
How popular is Ashantee in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2002, with 31 girls. It first appears in the records in 1995.
Half of all the girls named Ashantee in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2005, the years shaded on the chart below.
Ashantee in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,575 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,067 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,132 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,329 |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,801 |
| 1995 | 8 | #9,548 |
Names like Ashantee
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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