Asante
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #12,243 · #2,765 for boys in 2025, 46 births
Given to boys 83.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1997 · 83 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,246since 1975
Asante over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,765 | 46 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,750 | 47 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,805 | 45 | |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #3,151 | 38 |
| 2021 | — | #3,297 | 35 | |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 | #2,759 | 44 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 | #3,201 | 36 |
| 2018 | — | #4,739 | 20 | |
| 2017 | — | #5,788 | 15 | |
| 2016 | — | #5,789 | 15 | |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #5,289 | 17 |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #3,371 | 32 |
| 2013 | — | #3,122 | 35 | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #3,002 | 38 |
| 2011 | — | #2,748 | 43 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,375 | 53 | |
| 2009 | #11,459 | 9 | #3,045 | 38 |
| 2008 | — | #2,515 | 50 | |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #3,025 | 38 |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #4,865 | 18 |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | #4,062 | 22 |
| 2004 | #10,690 | 9 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 | #4,815 | 16 |
| 2002 | #7,816 | 13 | #3,909 | 21 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #2,562 | 37 |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | #2,922 | 30 |
| 1999 | #6,484 | 15 | #2,140 | 44 |
| 1998 | #6,719 | 14 | #2,274 | 39 |
| 1997 | #5,417 | 18 | #1,345 | 83 |
| 1996 | #4,059 | 26 | #1,533 | 65 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | #2,556 | 29 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | #2,392 | 32 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #2,577 | 28 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 | #3,748 | 16 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | #4,231 | 13 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | #4,993 | 10 |
| 1989 | — | #5,615 | 8 | |
| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
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| 1986 | — | #4,130 | 10 | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | — | |
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| 1983 | — | #4,907 | 7 | |
| 1982 | — | #6,385 | 5 | |
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| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
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| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Asante! It came in at #5,464, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1977, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Asante is popular in 1999
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Illinois#1,033 · 1 in 13,300
- California#1,676 · 1 in 34,543
Best ever in a state: #379 in Connecticut, 1996.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Illinois | #1,033 | 6 | 1 in 13,300 |
| California | #1,676 | 7 | 1 in 34,543 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Asante
- 15 spots since 2024 (#2,750 → #2,765)
- 6 spots since 2020 (#2,759 → #2,765)
- 2,524 spots since 2015 (#5,289 → #2,765)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 1997 at #1,345 (83 births)
- Births halved by 1998, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 22,713 boys born in 1997 were named Asante (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 37,132 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 28.8% of all boys named Asante (359) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2004, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 16 | #5,059 (1978) | #5,370 |
| 1980s | 35 | #4,130 (1986) | #5,661 |
| 1990s | 359 | #1,345 (1997) | #2,779 |
| 2000s | 277 | #2,515 (2008) | #4,065 |
| 2010s | 304 | #2,375 (2010) | #3,942 |
| 2020s | 255 | #2,750 (2024) | #2,921 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Asante in 1999
Top girls' names in 1999
Top boys' names in 1999
More about 1999
girls
1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 118,255 of them was named Asante, which outranked 61.7% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,191Ziah16
- #6,191Zyaire16
- #6,191Zyon16
- #6,484Asante15
- #6,484Aaliya15
- #6,484Aaryanna15
- #6,484Abeer15
- #6,836Abaigeal14
- #6,836Adamarys14
- #6,836Adeola14
Tied with 351 names at #6,484; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,150 boys got a published name in 1999; 1 in 43,640 of them was named Asante, which outranked 81.6% of the 11,614 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,098Tyshon45
- #2,098Waleed45
- #2,098Wilber45
- #2,140Asante44
- #2,140Cross44
- #2,140Deontre44
- #2,140Edmundo44
- #2,162Aleczander43
- #2,162Amit43
- #2,162Anas43
Tied with 21 names at #2,140; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.