Akwasi
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Akwasi is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ghana. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Born on Sunday.
- GHGhana1 in 4.2K◐
- USUnited States1 in 802K
- ISIceland1 in 175K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈548 ●
- Sources
- 139 ●
- 1 in 175K ◐
across 9 countries
6.5K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
Born on Sunday
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | #113 | 4,108 | 1.9K rec. | — | — | Akwasi | 64 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 693 | 397 rec. | — | — | Akwasi | 62 |
| US United States | — | 415 | 3.1K rec. | 1 in 802K | 415 | Akwasi | 139 |
| DE Germany | — | 147 | 151 rec. | — | 1 | Akwasi | 30 |
| IT Italy | — | 110 | 131 rec. | — | 1 | Akwasi | 14 |
| AU Australia | — | 98 | 93 rec. | — | — | Akwasi | 16 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 87 | 87 rec. | — | — | Akwasi | 9 |
| CA Canada | — | 77 | 71 rec. | — | — | Akwasi | 30 |
| BE Belgium | — | 66 | 68 rec. | — | — | Akwasi | 15 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 49 | 86 rec. | 1 in 353K | 49 | Akwasi | 27 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 45 | 94 rec. | — | — | Akwasi | 12 |
| ES Spain | — | 34 | 29 rec. | 1 in 1.5M | 35 | Akwasi | 14 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English6.8K62%
- Swahili2.1K19%
- Spanish3563%
- 2372%
- French2322%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 6,809 | 62% |
| Swahili | 2,062 | 19% |
| Spanish | 356 | 3% |
| 237 | 2% | |
| French | 232 | 2% |
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 |
|---|---|
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1999 | 8 |
| 2007 | 6 |
| 2008 | 5 |
| 2010 | 6 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2025 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 7 years between 1991–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Akwasi Afrifab. 1936GHsoldier, politician, and former head of state of Ghana (1936-1979)
- Akwasi Osei-Adjeib. 1949GHGhanaian Minister for Foreign Affairs from July 2007 to February 2009
- Akwasi Frimpongb. 1986GHGhanaian sportsman
- Akwasi Fobi-Eduseib. 1986GBEnglish footballer (born 1986)
- Akwasi Mensahb. 1986USAmerican football player
- Akwasi Odurob. 1987BEBelgian footballer
- Akwasi Owusu-Ansahb. 1988USAmerican gridiron football player (born 1988)
- Akwasi Asanteb. 1992NLDutch association football player
- Blessing Afrifahb. 2003ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli (naturalized citizen) sprinter of Ghanaian descent
- Elijah Krahnb. 2003DEnot in their usual nameGerman footballer
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 23 sources across 14 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 27 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Akwasi?
- We estimate roughly 548 people bear Akwasi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Akwasi have the most bearers?
- Akwasi is most frequently recorded in Ghana, where it is most often spelled akwasi.
- How common is Akwasi compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Akwasi is the 113th most common given name of 14,190 given names recorded there.
- Is Akwasi a male or female name?
- Akwasi is a male 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 Akwasi mean?
- Recorded meaning: Born on Sunday
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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, “Akwasi” — the 113th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.