Entry № 46 · Akan origin

Abena Abena — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-BEH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Akan
Meaning
"Born on Tuesday"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Akan)

A name that means "born on tuesday".

Abena is a Twi (Akan) day name from Ghana — meaning "born on Tuesday." In Akan tradition, every child receives a day name based on the day of birth. Tuesday's male equivalent is Kwabena.

Abena is widely used across Ghana and the Akan diaspora.

Born on Tuesday — a Akan name.

The name in its native script.

Abena
Transliteration
Abena
Pronunciation
/ əˈbɛn.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Abena stands.

Abena does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Abenas before her.

Real people
Abena Busia
Ghanaian scholar and former ambassador.
born 1953
In fiction

Names connected to Abena.

The number behind Abena.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Abena reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.