Ashanty
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-SHAN-tee
- Origin
- Akan
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Ashanty is a girls' name of Akan origin. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Ashanty 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.
Meaning borrowed from Ashanti.
Is Ashanty a girl's or a boy's name?
Ashanty is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ashanty in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Ashanty, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2003, with 74 girls. It first appears in the records in 1992.
Half of all the girls named Ashanty in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 95 girls in the US were given Ashanty or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,748, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.
- Ashanti 89
- Ashanty 6
Ashanty in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,836 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,004 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,633 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,575 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,573 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,061 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,734 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,088 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,646 |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,785 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,733 |
| 2005 | 49 | #3,166 |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,885 |
| 2003 | 74 | #2,279 |
| 2002 | 61 | #2,551 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,132 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,380 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,483 |
Names like Ashanty
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Avani, Armani, Saanvi, Anvi, Anvika, Avaya, Prisha, Anika, Akshara, Aashvi, Aviva, Advika
Other spellings of Ashanty
Names related to Ashanty
Asanti, Ashante, Ashawnti, Ashaunti, Ashunti, Ashanta, Ashonti
More Akan names
Nana, Mansa, Kofi, Kwame, Ohemaa, Akosua, Obrempong, Ama, Kwabena, Akua, Kwaku, Nhyira, Abena, Kwadwo, Adom, Yaa
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Ashanty: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ashanty, updated 20 October 2026.