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Ashanti Martinez is an American politician. He is currently a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from District 22 in Prince George's County, having been appointed to the seat by Governor Wes Moore to fill a vacancy left by the appointment of Alonzo T. Washington to the Maryland Senate. He previously ran for the House seat in 2018 and 2022.
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Ashanti Obi (born 1952) is a Nigerian sprinter. She competed in the women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
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Ashanti Johnson (previously Ashanti Johnson-Pyrtle) is an American geochemist and chemical oceanographer. She is the first African American to earn a doctoral degree in oceanography from Texas A&M University.
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Lovely sounding name, the singer is very very pretty and in my personal opinion some of her songs are legendary.
Interesting how Black Americans and White Americans try to honor their roots by choosing names from the land of their ancestors that would funnily enough not be used by the people who still live there. For example, the person below who is from the Ashanti tribe and says they don't use it there, and how a lot of white Americans use English surnames as first names something we rarely do in England ourselves (however it is starting to become trendy here as we often imitate American pop culture even down to our accents when we sing - embarrassing), it's ironic.
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Interesting how Black Americans and White Americans try to honor their roots by choosing names from the land of their ancestors that would funnily enough not be used by the people who still live there. For example, the person below who is from the Ashanti tribe and says they don't use it there, and how a lot of white Americans use English surnames as first names something we rarely do in England ourselves (however it is starting to become trendy here as we often imitate American pop culture even down to our accents when we sing - embarrassing), it's ironic.
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So strong and brave (imo).
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Gorgeous name but I would never use it because of the famous singer Ashanti Douglas.
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I belong to the Ashanti/Akan tribe of Ghana. Though no one uses it as a name in my country, I think it's nice as a name.
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I'm enchanted by this name. I find it very rich and beautiful.
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Ashanti was indeed the name of a group of Afghan chieftains who created a state (small country) in the 17th Century in the area of Ghana in Africa: known as the Ashanti Empire.
Ashanti is however, from the French word: Enchante which means: Enchanting, Enchanted, Charming, Captivating.
And although Anglicized in its pronunciation now: Ashanti, it can be pronounced Enchantè (with a light sound on "en" at the beginning that makes it almost sound like "an", with the "ch" having a typical "sh" sound, and a long "ee" sound at the end).
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Ashanti is however, from the French word: Enchante which means: Enchanting, Enchanted, Charming, Captivating.
And although Anglicized in its pronunciation now: Ashanti, it can be pronounced Enchantè (with a light sound on "en" at the beginning that makes it almost sound like "an", with the "ch" having a typical "sh" sound, and a long "ee" sound at the end).
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The name Ashanti was given to 154 girls born in the US in 2015.
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My name is Ashanti and I love the name. It is not a common name so for those that think the name Ashanti is stupid, shut up.
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I've met only one Ashanti and she was one of my friends in 8th grade. I thought it was an okay name. There was also a girl I knew that was named Ashanta... don't know what her mom was thinking.
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I once knew a decent girl named Ashanti. I can picture it on boys or girls, but after meeting her this name seems more feminine to me.
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I like the name. It's not a made up name, it actually has a meaning. It is similar to Ashley, but not boring like Ashley. I doubt I would use it for my daughter, it doesn't flow well with my surname.
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I have always thought both the singer and her name were very sweet and pretty.
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Ashanti is a trashy, celebrity-inspired name that would best suit a porn star or a stripper. It's also the name of an ethnic group. No member of the Ashanti people has this as a name. Choose something else.
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Rather trashy on most people.
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The r'n'b singer has really ruined the name. I bet all those little girls born in 2002 and named Ashanti are going to wish they had a different name than this foreign-sounding name that can only be asociated with some obscure, and POOR, r'n'b singer that no one will remember by the time the poor girls are in their teens. When they hear her songs (because the parents are guaranteed to have saved at least one), they'll look at their parents angrily and say: "I was named after HER?!" It will be awkward indeed. Come on now, you are just as American as white people. Don't pick this clearly foreign name unless you have actual bonds to the culture it came from.
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I think Ashanti is a very pretty name!
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A famous bearer is Ashanti Douglas, the singer, known only by her first name.
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