Akua
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Akan (Ghana): female name for a girl born on Wednesday (African Names)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/akua/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Akua is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ghana than in any other country, where it is the 54th most common given name.
- GHGhana≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 142K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 150K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ghana (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 238 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Akua
- Swahili:/akua/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Akan (Ghana): female name for a girl born on Wednesday.
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Akua counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | #54 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 60K | Akua | 83 |
| US United States | — | 1,080 | 1 in 308K | 1K | Akua | 238 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Akua | 96 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 672K | listed | Akua | 17 |
| JP Japan | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 629K | — | Akua | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 102 | 1 in 169K | 102 | Akua | 15 |
| SE Sweden | — | 72 | 1 in 142K | 72 | — | 8 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Akua | 6 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Heuristic parse of ghanacitizenship.com; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the african-names-handbook-1976 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jamal Loweb. 1994GBnot in their usual nameJamaican footballer
- Aqua Yamazakib. 2000JPnot in their usual nameJapanese AV idol
- Akua NjeriUSAmerican writer and activist
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Akua?
- In Swahili /akua/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Akua mean, and where does it come from?
- Akan (Ghana): female name for a girl born on Wednesday. Recorded by African Names.
- What are other forms of the name Akua?
- In the etymology graph, Ekua is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Akua a male or female name?
- Akua is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- Which countries have the most people named Akua?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Akua in Ghana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled akua. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Nigeria and Japan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Akua?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,080 people named Akua in 2020, about 1 in 308 thousand residents.
- How common is Akua compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Akua is the 54th most common given name of 14,081 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Akua?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/akuaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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” — ranked 10th in Ghana (Heuristic parse of ghanacitizenship.com). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.