Akan Boy Names
Explore names documented in Akan naming traditions. Compare these spellings using U.S. birth records, which do not measure popularity in other countries. This focused selection includes only sourced names with matching U.S. birth records; many other names used in this tradition are absent from the U.S. data.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Documented Akan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1960. | 42#2,961 | Down 471 rank positions in five years | 1990 | ||
Documented Akan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1970. | 36#3,278 | Down 176 rank positions in five years | 2004 | ||
Documented Akan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1972. | 16#5,771 | Down 795 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Documented Akan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1971. | 7#10,250 | Down 1,060 rank positions in five years | 1977 | ||
Documented Akan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1970. | 15#6,015 | Down 158 rank positions in five years | 2004 | ||
Documented Akan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1970. | 6#11,429 | Down 1,280 rank positions in five years | 1977 | ||
Documented Akan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1970. | 12#7,022 | Up 267 rank positions in five years | 1995 | ||
Documented Akan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1973. | 6#11,937 | Down 3,905 rank positions in five years | 1997 | ||
Documented Akan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1971. | 11#7,445 | Up 2,693 rank positions in five years | 1999 | ||
Documented Akan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1973. | 9#8,626 | new | 2005 | ||
Documented Akan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1983. | 5#12,134 | new | 2013 | ||
Documented Akan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1987. | —Unranked | — | 2002 | ||
Documented Akan usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2010. | —Unranked | — | 2013 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.