Ashanty

Peak · girls
2003 · 74 births
Debut · girls
8 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
598
since 1992

Ashanty over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Ashanty has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank1990200020102020peak #2,282, 2003girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#13,2086
2024#13,4776
2023#15,1945
2022#15,3065
2021—
2020#15,0885
2019#10,4739
2018#11,4278
2017#7,84014
2016#9,41111
2015#8,00814
2014#7,63615
2013#8,58013
2012#6,57619
2011#5,06327
2010#4,73530
2009#6,09122
2008#4,64732
2007#3,78642
2006#3,73441
2005#3,17049
2004#2,88955
2003#2,28274
2002#2,55461
2001#15,3525
2000#15,0315
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1997#13,7245
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First appearance
1992

The first year at least five girls were named Ashanty! It came in at #9,491, and was given to 8 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1993–1997, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Ashanty is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Ashanty in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Ashanty
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 1,880 spots since 2020 (#15,088 → #13,208)
  • 5,200 spots since 2015 (#8,008 → #13,208)
Rise & fade · girls
11 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1992
  • Peaked 2003 at #2,282 (74 births)
  • Births halved by 2008, 5 yrs 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 24,691
  • Highest: 1 in 24,691 girls born in 2003 were named Ashanty (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 64.5% of all girls named Ashanty (386) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s25#9,491 (1992)#11,935
2000s386#2,282 (2003)#5,954
2010s160#4,735 (2010)#7,975
2020s27#13,208 (2025)#14,455

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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