Ashanti

Where Ashanti comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Ashanti.

  • Vowel-ended
Ashanti through the years
  1. 1952
    Ashanti Obi born
    Nigerian sprinter
  2. 1954
    Ashanti Omowali Alston born
    American anarchist activist
  3. 1970
    First appearance
    #4,038 among girls with 14 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1975
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
  5. 2002
    Around this time: Ashanti
    Album, 2002 · Source
  6. 2002
    Peak, #115
    2,946 babies named Ashanti, the most in any year.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Ashanti Omowali Alston · American anarchist activist, born 1954
  • Ashanti Obi · Nigerian sprinter, born 1952
  • Ashanti Johnson · American geochemist and chemical oceanographer
  • Ashanti Akpan · English footballer, born 2004

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record. Events show what happened around then, not why parents chose the name.