Quick answers about Ashante
How many people are named Ashante?
An estimated 1,417 living Americans are named Ashante.
How rare is Ashante?
Ashante fell below the SSA's 5-birth reporting floor in 2025. It is extremely rare as a new baby name.
How old is the typical Ashante?
The median age of a living American named Ashante is approximately 30 years, with most bearers falling between 24 and 35 years old.
Is Ashante still popular?
Not especially. Ashante has been declining since its 2002 peak and registered 0 births in 2025.
Where is Ashante most common?
Ashante has its strongest geographic signal in Louisiana, where it appears 7.2× more often than the national baseline.
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Where it lives now
Ashante is most concentrated in Louisiana — about 7.2× the national rate in the 1990s. It also runs high in New York.
States where Ashante is given more often than the national average — its present-day heartland.
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