Entry № 2769 · Akan origin

Efua Efua — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EH-foo-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Akan
Meaning
"Born on Friday (Akan Ghanaian day-name)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Akan)

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

Efua is from the Akan Afua — the Akan day-name for a female child born on Friday. Sutherland Children's Park in Accra is named in her honor.

Born on Friday (Akan).

The name in its native script.

Efua
Transliteration
Afua
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛf.uː.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Efua stands.

Efua 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.

Efuas before her.

Real people
Efua Sutherland
Iconic Ghanaian playwright + PANAFEST founder.
1924 – 1996
Efua Dorkenoo
Ghanaian-British anti-FGM activist OBE.
1949 – 2014
In fiction
Efua
Akan Friday-born day-name.

Names connected to Efua.

The number behind Efua.

6

The Nurturer

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