Asanti
- #14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- Last seen for boys in 2020 at #8,739
- Given to girls 82.0% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2002 · 23 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 255since 1997
Asanti over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | — | |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 | — | |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | — | |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | — | |
| 2020 | — | #8,739 | 8 | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | — | |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | — | |
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| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 | — | |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | — | |
| 2013 | #8,135 | 14 | — | |
| 2012 | #7,456 | 16 | — | |
| 2011 | #8,196 | 14 | #12,287 | 5 |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #6,091 | 22 | — | |
| 2008 | #8,529 | 14 | — | |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | — | |
| 2006 | #7,482 | 16 | — | |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | — | |
| 2004 | #10,690 | 9 | — | |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 | — | |
| 2002 | #5,086 | 23 | — | |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | #6,935 | 9 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | — | |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | — | |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #4,960 | 12 |
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| 1995 | — | #8,868 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1997
The first year at least five girls were named Asanti! It came in at #12,070, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2016–2017, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Asanti is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Asanti in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Asanti
Momentum · girls
Brand new
- 4,794 spots since 2015 (#10,148 → #14,942)
Rise & fade · girls
5 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1997
- Peaked 2002 at #5,086 (23 births)
- Births halved by 2003, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 78,125
- Highest: 1 in 78,125 girls born in 2002 were named Asanti (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 49.0% of all girls named Asanti (125) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2021
- Mostly boys until 2020, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 21 | #10,345 (1999) | #11,184 |
| 2000s | 125 | #5,086 (2002) | #9,673 |
| 2010s | 82 | #7,456 (2012) | #10,857 |
| 2020s | 27 | #10,292 (2021) | #12,735 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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