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Ashantay
How to Pronounce Ashantay
Pronounced ah-shahn-TAY /ˌɑː.ʃɑːnˈteɪ/Medium
Meaning: Ashantay echoes Ashanti, the name of a major Akan people and historic kingdom of Ghana, and adds a -tay ending in the style of Chante and Shantay. It reads as a heritage-flavored coinage, its meaning carried by the Ashanti reference rather than a separate word.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Ashantay is a modern American coinage that reaches toward Ashanti, the name of a major Akan people and historic kingdom in what is now Ghana, and finishes with the fashionable -tay ending. It belongs to the heritage-minded and inventive naming of Black American families in the nineteen-seventies and appears on United States birth records from the mid-nineteen-seventies.
It was always very rare, given to only a handful of girls a year even at its high in the early two-thousands, so a girl named Ashantay then would be a young adult today. It reads as a heritage-flavored coinage; the plainer Ashanti is more familiar.
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Frequently Asked
What does the name Ashantay mean?
It is a modern coinage echoing Ashanti, a major Akan people and kingdom of Ghana, with a -tay ending.
How do you pronounce Ashantay?
It's said ah-shahn-TAY /ˌɑː.ʃɑːnˈteɪ/, three syllables with the stress on the last.
Is Ashantay a boy or girl name?
Ashantay is used as a girl's name.
How popular is Ashantay?
It has always been very rare, given to only a handful of girls a year at its peak in the early two-thousands.