Meaning and history
Ashanti is a name derived from the Ashanti people, an African group living in southern Ghana, and it is possibly related to a Twi word meaning “warlike.”
20062006: 303 births, rank #875
2007: 298 births, rank #911
2008: 292 births, rank #932
2009: 265 births, rank #998
2010: 233 births, rank #1,063
20112011: 236 births, rank #1,045
2012: 200 births, rank #1,214
2013: 209 births, rank #1,148
2014: 184 births, rank #1,291
2015: 157 births, rank #1,464
20162016: 161 births, rank #1,434
2017: 141 births, rank #1,552
2018: 164 births, rank #1,371
2019: 161 births, rank #1,392
2020: 109 births, rank #1,808
20212021: 104 births, rank #1,897
2022: 120 births, rank #1,731
2023: 121 births, rank #1,699
2024: 99 births, rank #1,980
20252025: 89 births, rank #2,099
Ashanti moved from #932 to #999 for girls between 2008 and 2009. Its highest annual birth count came in 2002, with 2,946 births.