Akua
given name · Akan · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Akua is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ghana, where it is the 79th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Akan and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Akan (Ghana): female name for a girl born on Wednesday.
- GHGhana1 in 270◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 182K
- USUnited States1 in 319K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.3K ●
- Sources
- 215 ●
- 1 in 142K ◐
across 8 countries
11K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Meaning & origin●
Akan (Ghana): female name for a girl born on Wednesday.
Sources 1
- African Names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | #79 | 63,127 | 2.4K rec. | — | 60K | Akua | 84 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,135 | 668 rec. | — | — | Akua | 73 |
| US United States | — | 1,043 | 6.1K rec. | 1 in 319K | 1K | Akua | 215 |
| AU Australia | — | 189 | 185 rec. | — | — | Akua | 32 |
| DE Germany | — | 188 | 199 rec. | — | 1 | Akua | 45 |
| CA Canada | — | 142 | 143 rec. | — | 1 | Akua | 35 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 102 | 99 rec. | 1 in 169K | 102 | Akua | 16 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 97 | 175 rec. | — | listed | Akua | 18 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 83 | 92 rec. | — | — | Akua | 17 |
| IT Italy | — | 75 | 89 rec. | — | — | Akua | 10 |
| SE Sweden | — | 72△ | 25 rec. | 1 in 142K | 72 | — | 9 |
| JP Japan | — | 65 | 64 rec. | — | — | Akua | 9 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Akan60K78%
- English11K15%
- Swahili1.8K2%
- 4131%
- Spanish3811%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Akan | 60,084 | 78% |
| English | 11,394 | 15% |
| Swahili | 1,757 | 2% |
| 413 | 1% | |
| Spanish | 381 | 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●
Akua is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Sweet messenger
as a nameThe book of African names
Bom on Thursday
as a nameA Handbook of African Names
In ibb, ing ancestors (kept in the house); a long stick used by ekp6 for secret executions, the stick is driven through
as a wordIbibio Dictionary. Final Report
In Hawaiian, God, goddess, spirit, ghost, devil, image, idol, corpse; divine, supernatural, godly
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Hawaiian, god (deity)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 |
|---|---|
| 1971 | 9 |
| 1972 | 10 |
| 1973 | 12 |
| 1974 | 5 |
| 1975 | 11 |
| 1976 | 15 |
| 1977 | 11 |
| 1978 | 16 |
| 1979 | 15 |
| 1980 | 10 |
| 1981 | 11 |
| 1982 | 10 |
| 1983 | 7 |
| 1984 | 7 |
| 1985 | 8 |
| 1986 | 9 |
| 1987 | 8 |
| 1988 | 12 |
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1990 | 10 |
| 1991 | 14 |
| 1992 | 13 |
| 1993 | 13 |
| 1994 | 9 |
| 1995 | 13 |
| 1996 | 14 |
| 1997 | 15 |
| 1998 | 13 |
| 1999 | 16 |
| 2000 | 14 |
| 2001 | 8 |
| 2002 | 9 |
| 2003 | 13 |
| 2004 | 16 |
| 2005 | 9 |
| 2006 | 9 |
| 2007 | 10 |
| 2008 | 8 |
| 2009 | 5 |
| 2010 | 7 |
| 2011 | 8 |
| 2012 | 9 |
| 2013 | 9 |
| 2014 | 9 |
| 2015 | 5 |
| 2016 | 16 |
| 2017 | 9 |
| 2018 | 12 |
| 2019 | 6 |
| 2020 | 8 |
| 2022 | 8 |
| 2023 | 6 |
| 2024 | 11 |
| 2025 | 9 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 54 years between 1971–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Akua Asabea Ayisib. 1927GHGhanaian feminist, judge and journalist
- Akua Kuenyehiab. 1947GHGhanaian judge
- Akua Dixonb. 1948USAmerican cellist and singer
- Akua Donkorb. 1952GHGhanaian politician
- Akua Dansuab. 1958GHGhanaian politician
- Jamal Loweb. 1994GBnot in their usual nameJamaican footballer
- Aqua Yamazakib. 2000JPnot in their usual nameJapanese AV idol
- Akua NjeriUSAmerican writer and activist
- Nana Akua AddoGHGerman-born Ghanaian model, actress and film producer
- Akua Sarpong-AyisaGHGhanaian entrepreneur
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 30 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | Heuristic parse of ghanacitizenship.com | 2026 | 60K | #88 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1K | #11,736 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 102 | #5,456 |
| GH Ghana | Ghanaian name database with surnames and first names categorized by gender and frequency. | 2023 | 83 | #10 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 72 | #10,612 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 39 | #11,757 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 37 | #11,736 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1999 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 16 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 · 107 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Akua?
- We estimate roughly 1.3 thousand people bear Akua (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Akua have the most bearers?
- Akua is most frequently recorded in Ghana, where it is most often spelled akua.
- How common is Akua compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Akua is the 79th most common given name of 14,190 given names recorded there.
- Is Akua a male or female name?
- Akua 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 Akua mean?
- Recorded meaning: Akan (Ghana): female name for a girl born on Wednesday.
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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, “Akua” — the 79th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.