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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
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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.
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 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 67,423 of them was named Asante, which outranked 74.5% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,942Zenia27
- #3,942Zoila27
- #3,942Zuleika27
- #4,059Asante26
- #4,059Adelia26
- #4,059Adriene26
- #4,059Akeyla26
- #4,184Ailyn25
- #4,184Alejandrina25
- #4,184Alvina25
Tied with 124 names at #4,059; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 29,143 of them was named Asante, which outranked 85.4% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,517Terron66
- #1,517Tyshaun66
- #1,517Zayne66
- #1,533Asante65
- #1,533Antione65
- #1,533Benson65
- #1,533Breon65
- #1,552Arik64
- #1,552Case64
- #1,552Daveon64
Tied with 18 names at #1,533; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.