Entry № 489 · Akan origin

Ama Ama — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AH-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Akan
Meaning
"Born on Saturday"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Akan)

A name that means "born on saturday".

Ama is an Akan name from Ghana, given to a girl born on a Saturday.

For a Saturday's daughter, Ama is heritage in a name.

Born on Saturday — an Akan day name.

The name in its native script.

Ama
Transliteration
Ama
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑː.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ama stands.

Ama 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.

Amas before her.

Real people
Ama Ata Aidoo
Ghanaian author.
1942 – 2023
In fiction
Ama
Common in Ghanaian fiction.

Names connected to Ama.

The number behind Ama.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ama reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.