Entry № 182 · Akan origin

Adwoa Adwoa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-JOH-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Akan
Meaning
"Born on Monday"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Akan)

A name that means "born on monday".

Adwoa is the Twi/Akan (Ghanaian) day-name for a girl born on Monday — Dwoada. Monday in Akan cosmology is associated with peace.

Born on Monday. The Akan day of peace.

The name in its native script.

Adwoa
Transliteration
Adwoa
Pronunciation
/ əˈdʒoʊ.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Adwoa stands.

Adwoa 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.

Adwoas before her.

Real people
Adwoa Aboah
British-Ghanaian model.
born 1992
In fiction
Adwoa
Common in Ghanaian fiction.

Names connected to Adwoa.

The number behind Adwoa.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Adwoa reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.