"Form of Ashanti"
The name Ashante is commonly a female name from the "African" origin.
Ashante is a respelling of Ashanti, the name of the Akan people and former empire in what is now Ghana, also written Asante. The change from Ashanti to Ashante does not alter the referent. The spelling Ashante appears in United States birth records from 1971, in the period when names taken from African ethnonyms and place names entered American given-name use.
Ashanti means "African Tribe Name".
The pronunciation of Ashante is ah-SHAHN-tay.
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