Ashanti

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ashanti: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ashanti: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #445 in 2002, and it stood at #2,411 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#445highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2096
1998	#2701
1999	#2444
2000	#3247
2001	#3262
2002	#445
2003	#482
2004	#722
2005	#736
2006	#928
2007	#899
2008	#1135
2009	#1139
2010	#1218
2011	#1149
2012	#1649
2013	#1587
2014	#1628
2015	#2328
2016	#2233
2017	#2925
2018	#2090
2019	#2458
2020	#2163
2021	#2073
2022	#1767
2023	#2201
2024	#2411

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 28 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2096 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #445 among girls in England and Wales, in 2002 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2411 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Ashanti by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ashanti in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	18	3 of 10	6
2000sbusiest	343	10 of 10	34
2010s	164	10 of 10	16
2020s	64	5 of 10	13

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 34 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2001 and 2002, when recorded births rose by 67, from 4 to 71.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Ashanti appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #445 in England and Wales in 2002.

Ashanti's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2411	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1767	16	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2073	13	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2163	12	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2458	10	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2090	13	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2925	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2233	12	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2328	11	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1628	18	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1587	19	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1649	18	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1149	29	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1218	26	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1139	27	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1135	26	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#899	34	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#928	31	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#736	40	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#722	39	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#482	67	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#445	71	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3262	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3247	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2444	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2701	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2096	7	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #445, first reached in 2002.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 71 births, registered in England and Wales in 2002.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#2,411position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
71births registered in its largest year, 200250 to 99 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Ash · #433, 28y
Asha · #286, 52y
Ashar · #749, 24y
Asher · #28, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Gianni · #445, 29y
Jovan · #446, 29y
Sheikh · #443, 29y
Iram · #441, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Gianni · #445, 29y
Usama · #445, 16y
Yasir · #445, 30y
Camila · #444, 27y

Ashanti was ranked #445 in England and Wales · Girls in 2002. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ashanti and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ashanti without appearing here.

Ashanti moved ahead of

Debra Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3262 and #2226 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #445 and #4137.
Yvonne Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2925 and #2090 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2090 and #5666.
Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2458 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2163 and #5493.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2090 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2458 and #5591.

Moved ahead of Ashanti

Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1628 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2328 and #1240.
Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2163 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2073 and #1286.
Arlo Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1767 and #1849 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2201 and #1469.
Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2201 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2411 and #1743.

Moved the opposite way to Ashanti

Eabha Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ashanti went from #722 to #2411 while Eabha went from #4598 to #1262.
Martine Compare
Between 1996 and 2011 in England and Wales · Girls, Ashanti went from #2096 to #1149 while Martine went from #2350 to #4764.
Rory Compare
Between 2010 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ashanti went from #1218 to #2411 while Rory went from #5707 to #1603.
Fiadh Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ashanti went from #1587 to #2411 while Fiadh went from #5742 to #374.

Moved the same way as Ashanti

Dianne Compare
Between 2002 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ashanti went from #445 to #2411 and Dianne from #4137 to #5891.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #445 in England and Wales in 2002. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ashanti

Ashanti at a glance

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Popularity journey

Ashanti by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Ashanti at a glance

Ashanti by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Ashanti moved ahead of

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