Entry № 357 · Akan origin

Akosua Akosua — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-KOH-soo-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Akan
Meaning
"Born on Sunday"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Akan)

A name that means "born on sunday".

Akosua is the Twi/Akan (Ghanaian) day-name for a girl born on Sunday — Kwasiada.

Akosua is widely used in Ghana.

Born on Sunday. The Akan day-name.

The name in its native script.

Akosua
Transliteration
Akosua
Pronunciation
/ əˈkoʊ.suː.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Akosua stands.

Akosua 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.

Akosuas before her.

Real people
Akosua Busia
Ghanaian actress and writer.
born 1966
In fiction
Akosua
Common in Ghanaian fiction.

Names connected to Akosua.

The number behind Akosua.

5

The Seeker

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