Entry № 559 · Other origin

Amma Amma — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AHM-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Saturday-born girl"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Akan)

A name that means "saturday-born girl".

Amma is from the Akan Amma — Saturday-born girl Akan day-naming tradition. Amma is one of the Akan feminine names — central to traditional Ghanaian + West African heritage.

Saturday-born girl (Akan / Ghanaian).

The name in its native script.

Amma
Transliteration
Amma
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑːm.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Amma stands.

Amma 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.

Ammas before her.

Real people
Amma / Mata Amritanandamayi
Indian Hindu spiritual leader + hugging saint + ~40 million hugs delivered worldwide.
born 1953
In fiction
Amma
Akan Saturday-born girl + Akan Day Names + Ashanti + Fante peoples of Ghana.

Names connected to Amma.

The number behind Amma.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Amma reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.