Find Your Akan Name
just go down to the form below, enter your date of birth and gender and click the submit button.
The Akan are a meta-ethnicity living in the countries of present-day Ghana and Ivory Coast. The Akan language are a group of dialects within the Central Tano branch of the Potou–Tano subfamily of the Niger–Congo family...Interested, why don't you read more on the Akans.
Akan names are derived from Ghanian culture. Frequently in Ghana, children are given their first name as a 'day name' which corresponds to the day in the week they were born. Here are Ghanian day names.
| day | male | female |
|---|---|---|
| sunday | Kwasi | Akosua |
| monday | Kwasi | Akosua |
| tuesday | Kwasi | Akosua |
| wednesday | Kwasi | Akosua |
| thursday | Kwasi | Akosua |
| friday | Kwasi | Akosua |
| saturday | Kwasi | Akosua |
your akan name is...