Entry № 967 · African origin

Ashanti Ashanti — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender

Girl

Origin

African

Meaning

"Of the Ashanti"

Syllables

First recorded

Traditional

The meaning

A name that means "of the ashanti".

Ashanti is a name of African origin, the name of the proud Ashanti people of Ghana.

Of the Ashanti — a African name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Ashanti

Transliteration: Ashanti
Pronunciation: / /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Ashanti stands.

Ashanti does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Namesakes

Ashantis before her.

Real people

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In fiction

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Names connected to Ashanti.

Numerology

The number behind Ashanti.

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ashanti reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.