Akosua
given name · Akan · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Akosua is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ghana, where it is the 74th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Akan and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name from time.
- GHGhana1 in 256◐
- USUnited States1 in 411K
- SESweden1 in 170K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈991 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 176 ●
- 1 in 170K ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
8.5K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
a female given name from time
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | #74 | 66,699 | 2.6K rec. | — | 63K | Akosua | 67 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 933 | 497 rec. | — | — | Akosua | 67 |
| US United States | — | 810 | 4.4K rec. | 1 in 411K | 810 | Akosua | 176 |
| DE Germany | — | 162 | 179 rec. | — | 1 | Akosua | 33 |
| CA Canada | — | 129 | 111 rec. | — | 1 | Akosua | 42 |
| AU Australia | — | 110 | 110 rec. | — | — | Akosua | 17 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 86 | 81 rec. | 1 in 201K | 86 | Akosua | 14 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 75 | 78 rec. | — | — | Akosua | 11 |
| IT Italy | — | 71 | 72 rec. | — | — | Akosua | 8 |
| EG Egypt | — | 68 | 64 rec. | — | — | Akosua | 5 |
| SE Sweden | — | 60△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 170K | 60 | — | 7 |
| BE Belgium | — | 55 | 52 rec. | — | — | Akosua | 16 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Akan63K83%
- English9.3K12%
- Swahili9301%
- 4391%
- Spanish3041%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Akan | 62,607 | 83% |
| English | 9,301 | 12% |
| Swahili | 930 | 1% |
| 439 | 1% | |
| Spanish | 304 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Akosua is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Akan, Akan (Ghana): female born on Sunday
as a nameAfrican Names
In English, Akan; born on Sunday
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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1974 | 6 |
| 1975 | 5 |
| 1976 | 9 |
| 1978 | 5 |
| 1979 | 6 |
| 1980 | 7 |
| 1982 | 6 |
| 1983 | 5 |
| 1984 | 5 |
| 1986 | 6 |
| 1987 | 9 |
| 1988 | 9 |
| 1989 | 9 |
| 1990 | 5 |
| 1991 | 6 |
| 1992 | 9 |
| 1993 | 8 |
| 1994 | 10 |
| 1995 | 6 |
| 1997 | 11 |
| 1998 | 8 |
| 1999 | 13 |
| 2000 | 5 |
| 2001 | 8 |
| 2002 | 6 |
| 2003 | 15 |
| 2004 | 8 |
| 2005 | 6 |
| 2006 | 7 |
| 2007 | 15 |
| 2008 | 5 |
| 2009 | 11 |
| 2010 | 7 |
| 2011 | 8 |
| 2012 | 8 |
| 2013 | 7 |
| 2014 | 9 |
| 2015 | 9 |
| 2016 | 5 |
| 2018 | 9 |
| 2019 | 7 |
| 2020 | 10 |
| 2021 | 6 |
| 2022 | 10 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2024 | 6 |
| 2025 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 47 years between 1974–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Nana Akosua Frimpomaab. 1956GHGhanaian politician
- Akosua Agyapongb. 1959GHGhanaian highlife artiste
- Akosua Busiab. 1966GHGhanaian-born British actress and songwriter
- Akosua Serwaab. 1981GHGhanaian middle distance runner
- Akosua Adoma Owusub. 1984USGhanaian-American filmmaker and producer (born 1984)
- Nana Akosua Hansonb. 1990GHGhanaian television and radio presenter, actress, writer, and feminist (born 1990)
- Nana Akosua KonaduGHGhanaian television personality
- AfronitaaaGHnot in their usual nameGhanaian dance artist and choreographer
- Akosua K. DarkwahGHGhanaian female sociologist
- Akosua NewmanGHGhanaian philanthropist
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 22 sources across 14 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 71 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Akosua?
- We estimate roughly 991 people bear Akosua (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Akosua have the most bearers?
- Akosua is most frequently recorded in Ghana, where it is most often spelled akosua.
- How common is Akosua compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Akosua is the 74th most common given name of 14,190 given names recorded there.
- Is Akosua a male or female name?
- Akosua 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.
- What does the name Akosua mean?
- Recorded meaning: a female given name from time
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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, “Akosua” — the 74th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.