Akosua
/əˈkoʊ.su.ə/noun
An Akan feminine given name traditionally given to a girl born on Sunday.
Did you know?Akosua belongs to the Akan day-name system, in which a child’s gender and weekday of birth traditionally determine a personal name.
Etymological Timeline
Precolonial Akan tradition
Akan
Akosua
“A feminine personal name assigned to a Sunday-born child”
Precolonial Akan tradition
Akan
Kwasi / Akosua
“The paired masculine and feminine names associated with Sunday births”
18th–19th Century
Twi
Akosua
“A commonly recorded Akan feminine day name”
19th Century
English
Akosua
“Akan personal name represented in English-language missionary and colonial records”
Modern English
English
Akosua
“A personal name used in Ghana and throughout the global Akan diaspora”