How popular is “Ashanti” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Ashanti” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

This chart shows how the popularity of “Ashanti” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Ashanti” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

This chart shows how “Ashanti” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1970	28	0.000007764	14	14	0%
1971	29	0.000008449	21	8	45%
1972	40	0.000012727	21	19	5%
1973	48	0.00001591	30	18	25%
1974	62	0.000020395	30	32	-3%
1975	49	0.000016228	29	20	18%
1976	49	0.000016149	31	18	27%
1977	69	0.000021722	44	25	28%
1978	79	0.000024891	53	26	34%
1979	215	0.000064623	175	40	63%
1980	212	0.000061547	191	21	80%
1981	105	0.000030352	89	16	70%
1982	117	0.000033353	101	16	73%
1983	103	0.00002974	91	12	77%
1984	81	0.000023217	63	18	56%
1985	66	0.000018492	59	7	79%
1986	65	0.000018273	56	9	72%
1987	74	0.000020524	60	14	62%
1988	83	0.000022463	68	15	64%
1989	228	0.000059306	206	22	81%
1990	130	0.000032891	113	17	74%
1991	143	0.000036711	123	20	72%
1992	195	0.000050764	172	23	76%
1993	257	0.000068165	219	38	70%
1994	259	0.000069668	225	34	74%
1995	279	0.000076185	242	37	73%
1996	348	0.000095416	313	35	80%
1997	289	0.000079708	267	22	85%
1998	284	0.000077212	256	28	80%
1999	270	0.000073094	243	27	80%
2000	226	0.00005979	206	20	82%
2001	305	0.000081477	281	24	84%
2002	2969	0.000794213	2946	23	98%
2003	968	0.000254581	962	6	99%
2004	542	0.000141851	532	10	96%
2005	398	0.000103515	398		100%
2006	303	0.000076589	303		100%
2007	307	0.000076794	298	9	94%
2008	292	0.000074288	292		100%
2009	274	0.000071724	265	9	93%
2010	233	0.000063046	233		100%
2011	241	0.000065887	236	5	96%
2012	200	0.000054684	200		100%
2013	209	0.000057328	209		100%
2014	184	0.000049644	184		100%
2015	162	0.000043773	157	5	94%
2016	161	0.000043885	161		100%
2017	141	0.000039427	141		100%
2018	164	0.000046645	164		100%
2019	166	0.000047826	161	5	94%
2020	109	0.000032629	109		100%
2021	104	0.000030697	104		100%
2022	119	0.000035174	119		100%
2023	121	0.000036543	121		100%
2024	99	0.000029743	99		100%

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