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Tashanti

Gender
Girl
Say it
tah-SHAHN-tee
Origin
Modern

Tashanti is a girls' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Tashanti come from?

Modern: modern US coinage, in the style of Ashanti

Is Tashanti a girl's or a boy's name?

Tashanti is a girls' name.

How popular is Tashanti 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 43 girls. It first appears in the records in 1983.

Half of all the girls named Tashanti in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2004, the years shaded on the chart below.

1983Busiest: 43 in 20022007
Tashanti in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20077#13,918
20069#11,412
20057#13,003
200414#7,823
200330#4,303
200243#3,237
20010–
20000–
19990–
19980–
19970–
19960–
19950–
19940–
19930–
19920–
19910–
19900–
19890–
19880–
19870–
19860–
19850–
19840–
19835#10,272

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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, “Tashanti: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/tashanti, updated 20 October 2026.