Akua is a Twi (Akan) day name from Ghana — meaning "born on Wednesday." In Akan tradition, every child is given a day name based on the day of birth, alongside their personal name. Wednesday's male equivalent is Kweku.
Akua is widely used in Ghana and across the Akan diaspora. The novelist Ayi Kwei Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born and other Ghanaian works feature Akan day-name traditions prominently.
Akua 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Akua reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.