Ashanti

Lovely sounding name, the singer is very very pretty and in my personal opinion some of her songs are legendary.

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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.

So strong and brave (imo).

Gorgeous name but I would never use it because of the famous singer Ashanti Douglas.

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.

I'm enchanted by this name. I find it very rich and beautiful.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I have always thought both the singer and her name were very sweet and pretty.

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.

Rather trashy on most people.

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.

I think Ashanti is a very pretty name!