Ashanti

How popular is Ashanti in the UK?

Rank in 2025

3,101st among girls

Babies in 2025

8 about 1 in 35,000 girls

Five-year trend

Steady down 11% in five years

Same name in a class

under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Ashanti, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,268th. Its busiest year was 2002, with 72 girls.

It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Ashanti than any year since 2017.

Half of all the girls named Ashanti in the UK since 1996 were born between 2003 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.

Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.

How popular is Ashanti in the US?

Rank in 2025

2,099th among girls

Babies in 2025

89 about 1 in 18,000 girls

Five-year trend

Falling down 29% in five years

Same name in a class

under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 89 girls in the US were named Ashanti, making it the 2,099th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,808th. Its busiest year was 2002, with 2,946 girls. It first appears in the records in 1970.

2025 had fewer girls named Ashanti than any year since 1988.

Half of all the girls named Ashanti in the US since 1880 were born between 1998 and 2007, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 95 girls in the US were given Ashanti or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,748, up from #2,099 for this spelling alone.

• Ashanti 89
• Ashanty 6

Girls were 53% of the babies named Ashanti in the US in 1972, and 97% in 2019.