Asad vs Asante

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Asad Asante

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 53 years in which either name was published, Asad for 42 years and Asante for 11 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

• 1970–1973 Asad ahead
• 1975–1976 Asante ahead
• 1977–1994 Asad ahead
• 1995–1999 Asante ahead
• 2000–2007 Asad ahead
• 2008–2010 Asante ahead
• 2011–2013 Asad ahead
• 2014 Asante ahead
• 2015–2025 Asad ahead

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Asantes alive today are over 18; half the Asads are over 16. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Asad New Jersey (4.8×), New York (3.5×), Pennsylvania (2.6×)
• Asante California (4.5×), Illinois (2.6×), New York (1.3×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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