Appiah

Name: Appiah: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-09-12

surname · Akan · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Appiah is a surname, most frequently recorded in Ghana, where it is the 98th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Akan and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common

GHGhana1 in 857◐
GBUnited Kingdom1 in 67K
USUnited States1 in 202K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

: ≈2.7K ●
Sources: 268 ●
: 1 in 15K ◐

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Appiah is recorded, by country
Country						Most common spelling	Sources
GH Ghana	#98	16,359	8.4K rec.	—	245K	Appiah	115
GB United Kingdom	—	3,462	2K rec.	—	—	Appiah	109
US United States	—	1,643	12K rec.	1 in 202K	2.7K	Appiah	268
DE Germany	—	588	596 rec.	—	1	Appiah	70
CA Canada	—	504	454 rec.	—	—	Appiah	69
IT Italy	—	373	404 rec.	—	—	Appiah	39
AU Australia	—	352	379 rec.	—	—	Appiah	43
ES Spain	—	329△	149 rec.	1 in 152K	329	—	35
NG Nigeria	—	203	265 rec.	—	—	Appiah	23
NL Netherlands	—	189	222 rec.	1 in 91K	189	Appiah	40
ZA South Africa	—	184	201 rec.	—	—	Appiah	22
MH Marshall Islands	#4	176	1.2K rec.	—	—	Appiah	1
BE Belgium	—	78	150 rec.	1 in 150K	265	Appiah	28
FI Finland	—	76△	9 rec.	1 in 73K	76	—	9
NO Norway	—	70△	25 rec.	1 in 78K	70	—	11
CH Switzerland	—	64△	25 rec.	1 in 131K	64	Appiah	16
DK Denmark	—	61△	2 rec.	1 in 96K	61	—	2
SE Sweden	—	56△	13 rec.	1 in 182K	56	—	12
GY Guyana	—	49	54 rec.	1 in 15K	49	—	2
AT Austria	—	40	17 rec.	—	—	Appiah	19
FR France	—	22	0 rec.	1 in 3.1M	22	—	1
PL Poland	—	15△	2 rec.	1 in 2.6M	15	—	1
CZ Czechia	—	4	—	1 in 2.7M	4	—	—
DM Dominica	—	1	0 rec.	1 in 74K	1	—	1
VC St. Vincent & Grenadines	—	1	0 rec.	1 in 101K	1	—	1
IS Iceland	—	—	—	—	1	—	—
EC Ecuador	—	—	—	—	1	—	—
EE Estonia	—	—	1 rec.	—	listed	—	1

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

Akan245K83%
English36K12%
Swahili1.7K1%
Spanish1.7K1%
Welsh1.2K1%

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Languages in which the name is recorded
Name	Records	Note
Akan	245,093	83%
English	36,400	12%
Swahili	1,746	1%
Spanish	1,736	1%
Welsh	1,180	1%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Notable people with this name●

Kwame Anthony Appiahb. 1954GBBritish-American philosopher and writer
James Kwesi Appiahb. 1960GHEx Ghanaian footballer and the head coach of the black stars of Ghana
Simon Kofi Appiahb. 1964GHGhanaian Catholic bishop
Stephen Appiahb. 1980GHGhanaian footballer
Jackie Appiahb. 1983GHGhanaian actress
Kwesi Appiahb. 1990GBassociation football player (born 1990)
Dennis Appiahb. 1992FRGhanaian and French footballer
Abena Appiahb. 1993GHGhanaian-American singer, model, philanthropist, and beauty queen
Hisashi Appiah Tawiahb. 1998JPJapanese association football player
Brooklyn Appiahactor

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 34 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Appiah
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
GH Ghana	Ghana top-100 surnames (surnam.es)	—	245K	#5
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020	2020	2.7K	#11,295
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010	2010	1.6K	#17,239
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000	2000	784	#28,617
ES Spain	INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)	—	329	#11,219
ES Spain	INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)	—	329	#11,181
GH Ghana	Ghanaian name database with surnames and first names categorized by gender and frequency.	2023	287	#6
BE Belgium	Statbel — Noms de famille (family names)	—	265	#6,587
NL Netherlands	CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)	2007	189	#10,980
BE Belgium	Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)	2008	78	#18,790
FI Finland	DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)	—	76	#20,804
NO Norway	SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)	—	70	#20,659
CH Switzerland	BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)	2024	64	#15,489
DK Denmark	Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)	—	61	#8,849
SE Sweden	Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)	—	56	#11,495
GY Guyana	Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025	2025	49	#576
FI Finland	DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)	—	32	—
FI Finland	DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)	—	30	#14,390
FI Finland	DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)	—	30	#15,506
NL Netherlands	Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)	—	30	#9,133
FR France	INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)	1991	22	—
PL Poland	dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)	2026	15	—
PL Poland	dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)	—	15	#104,540
SE Sweden	Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)	—	15	#28,956
PL Poland	dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)	2026	11	—
PL Poland	dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)	—	11	#125,283
NL Netherlands	Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)	—	11	#21,186
FR France	INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)	1981	7	—
CZ Czechia	MVČR — living population register 2017	—	4	#125,329
PL Poland	dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)	2026	2	#11,187
FR France	INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)	1971	2	—
EC Ecuador	INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)	—	2	—
IS Iceland	Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)	2026	1	#36,015
DM Dominica	Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025	2025	1	#226
VC St. Vincent & Grenadines	Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025)	2025	1	#261
EC Ecuador	INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)	2015	1	—
DE Germany	Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene	2010	1	—
GY Guyana	Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025	2025	1	#593
EC Ecuador	INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)	2014	1	—
FR France	INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)	1961	1	—
EE Estonia	Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023	2023	—	—
US United States	wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement)	—	—	—
FR France	INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)	1951	—	—
FR France	INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)	1941	—	—
FR France	INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)	1931	—	—
FR France	INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)	1921	—	—
FR France	INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)	1911	—	—
FR France	INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)	1901	—	—
FR France	INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)	1891	—	—

Reference works 4

The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Appiah?: We estimate roughly 2.7 thousand people bear Appiah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Appiah have the most bearers?: Appiah is most frequently recorded in Ghana, where it is most often spelled appiah.
How common is Appiah compared with other names?: In Ghana, Appiah is the 98th most common surname of 34,696 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot 2026-09-12. 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, “Appiah” — the 98th most common surname in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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