Entry № 210 · Akan origin

Afua Afua — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-FOO-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Akan
Meaning
"Friday-born (Akan day-name)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Akan)

A name that means "friday-born (akan day-name)".

Afua (also Afia) is the Akan day-name for a female child born on Friday.

Afua Hirsch (born 1981) is the British-Ghanaian writer and presenter; Afua Cooper (born 1957) is the Jamaican-Canadian poet.

Friday-born. The Akan day-name.

The name in its native script.

Afua
Transliteration
Afua
Pronunciation
/ əˈfuː.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Afua stands.

Afua 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.

Afuas before her.

Real people
Afua Hirsch
British-Ghanaian writer.
born 1981
In fiction
Afua
Common in Ghanaian fiction.

Names connected to Afua.

The number behind Afua.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Afua reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.