Asante
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Kiswahili: 'thank you'; also Ghanaian Ashanti name
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/əsantʲi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Asante is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Ghana it is the 9th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 208K(measured from records)
- GHGhana≈1 in 1.7M
- NONorway1 in 67K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 257 (measured from records)
- 1 in 67K (inferred from the name graph)
1,596 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Kiswahili: 'thank you'; also Ghanaian Ashanti name
Sources 1
- African Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Asante counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,596 | 1 in 208K | 2.4K | Asante | 257 |
| ES Spain | — | 215 | 1 in 233K | 215 | Asante | 25 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 113 | 1 in 153K | 113 | Asante | 34 |
| NO Norway | — | 82 | 1 in 67K | 82 | — | 16 |
| BE Belgium | — | 65 | 1 in 180K | 65 | Asante | 21 |
| SE Sweden | — | 62 | 1 in 165K | 62 | — | 17 |
| FI Finland | — | 54 | 1 in 103K | 54 | — | 8 |
| GH Ghana | #9 | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | 197K | Asante | 113 |
1,596 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Ghana top-100 surnames (surnam.es); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Asante is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
you have been good, thank you
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
You have been good-
as a nameThe African book of names
In Swahili, Thank you!
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, Ashanti
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Akan, AND FANTE LANGUAGE
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Asante Samuelb. 1981USAmerican football player (born 1981)
- Eugene Boatengb. 1985GHnot in their usual nameactor
- Asante Gullit Okyereb. 1988ITItalian footballer
- Asante Agyemangb. 1993GHGhanaian association football player
- Reggie Rockstoneb. 2000GHnot in their usual namerapper
- Asante Blackkb. 2001USAmerican actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | Ghana top-100 surnames (surnam.es) | — | 197K | #10 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.4K | #12,391 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,605 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 737 | #30,023 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 215 | #15,705 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 215 | #15,642 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 113 | #17,223 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 82 | #18,278 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 65 | #21,572 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 62 | #10,638 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 54 | #21,112 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Asante?
- A machine transcription gives /əsantʲi/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Asante mean?
- Recorded meaning: Kiswahili: 'thank you'; also Ghanaian Ashanti name
- In which country does Asante have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Asante, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled asante.
- Where is Asante most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Asante is densest in Norway — about 1 in 67 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Asante?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,596 people named Asante in 2010, about 1 in 208 thousand residents.
- How common is Asante compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Asante is the 9th most common surname of 36,883 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/asanteThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Asante” — the 9th most common surname in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.