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Girl's name · #2102 in the US (2025) · 2000s wave
Ashanti reached #115 in 2002 and has faded to #2102 since.
In a single year its births jumped from about 280 in 2001 to 2,900 in 2002 — the year the singer Ashanti's debut album opened at #1 and 'Foolish' spent ten weeks atop the charts.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 14 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#1,864 in France (2025) · #1,884 in Switzerland (2025) · #2,203 in Sweden (2025) · #2,730 in Canada (2025) · #3,035 in England & Wales (2025) · #750 in Poland (2023) · #1,371 in Belgium (2023) · #3,360 in Ecuador (2023) · #2,096 in Austria (2022) · #395 in Puerto Rico (2011) · #356 in New Zealand (2004).
Among 31 notable people named Ashanti:
Sports figures appear 3.6× more often than among typical names — e.g. Ashanti Akpan, English footballer (born 2005).
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