Adwoa
given name · Akan · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Adwoa is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ghana. It appears chiefly in Akan and English, written in the Latin script.
- GHGhana1 in 6.7K◐
- USUnited States1 in 458K
- ISIceland1 in 117K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈878 ●
- Sources
- 168 ●
- 1 in 117K ◐
across 8 countries
5.8K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | #136 | 2,542 | 1.7K rec. | — | 55K | Adwoa | 71 |
| US United States | — | 727 | 3.1K rec. | 1 in 458K | 727 | Adwoa | 168 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 675 | 349 rec. | — | — | Adwoa | 68 |
| CA Canada | — | 102 | 105 rec. | — | — | Adwoa | 29 |
| DE Germany | — | 101 | 107 rec. | — | 1 | Adwoa | 34 |
| AU Australia | — | 101 | 96 rec. | — | 1 | Adwoa | 23 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 63 | 57 rec. | 1 in 274K | 63 | Adwoa | 15 |
| SE Sweden | — | 43△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 237K | 43 | — | 3 |
| IT Italy | — | 36 | 45 rec. | — | — | Adwoa | 9 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 35 | 33 rec. | — | — | Adwoa | 11 |
| FI Finland | — | 23△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 242K | 45 | — | 4 |
| JM Jamaica | — | 23 | 22 rec. | — | — | Adwoa | 6 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Akan55K84%
- English7.1K11%
- Swahili1.4K2%
- Arabic1901%
- Spanish1841%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Akan | 54,500 | 84% |
| English | 7,094 | 11% |
| Swahili | 1,431 | 2% |
| Arabic | 190 | 1% |
| Spanish | 184 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1977 | 6 |
| 1978 | 7 |
| 1984 | 5 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1986 | 5 |
| 1989 | 11 |
| 1991 | 6 |
| 1992 | 7 |
| 1993 | 6 |
| 1994 | 6 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1997 | 7 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 1999 | 10 |
| 2000 | 7 |
| 2001 | 5 |
| 2002 | 9 |
| 2004 | 6 |
| 2006 | 9 |
| 2007 | 9 |
| 2009 | 7 |
| 2010 | 5 |
| 2011 | 9 |
| 2013 | 9 |
| 2014 | 7 |
| 2016 | 9 |
| 2018 | 11 |
| 2019 | 7 |
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2024 | 9 |
| 2025 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 32 years between 1977–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Adjoa Andohb. 1963GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress (born 1963)
- Joyce Adwoa Akoh Deib. 1964GHGhanaian politician
- Adwoa Hackmanb. 1974DEGerman singer
- Adjoa Bayorb. 1979GHnot in their usual nameGhanaian footballer
- Adwoa Yamoahb. 1986CACanadian cheerleader
- AJ Akuoko-Sarpongb. 1991GHnot in their usual nameGhanian journalist
- Adwoa Aboahb. 1992GBBritish model
- Adwoa BadoeGHGhanaian author and dancer
- Josephine Kyeiwaa OwusuGHnot in their usual namebanker and singer
- Sylvia AquereburuTGnot in their usual nameTogolese jurist
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 21 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | Heuristic parse of ghanacitizenship.com | 2026 | 55K | #94 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 727 | #15,579 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 63 | #7,325 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 45 | #9,497 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 43 | #15,034 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 23 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 20 | #18,854 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 11 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #42,000 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1999 | 10 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9 | #15,579 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 53 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Adwoa?
- We estimate roughly 878 people bear Adwoa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Adwoa have the most bearers?
- Adwoa is most frequently recorded in Ghana, where it is most often spelled adwoa.
- How common is Adwoa compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Adwoa is the 136th most common given name of 14,190 given names recorded there.
- Is Adwoa a male or female name?
- Adwoa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Adwoa” — the 136th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.