Adwoa

#11,956 in 2025Girls' name

Born on Monday

Adwoa has been given to 228 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #11,956 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1989, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Adwoa, 2025

1 in 474,000

Adwoa over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Adwoa: meaning, origin, and history

Born on Monday

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Adwoa means

Adwoa means “born on Monday”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Adwoa is used in Akan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 228 girls were recorded with the name Adwoa between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1989; its best national rank was #6,954 in 1989.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Adwoa?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 474,000; 7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 230,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #11,956; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 328,272 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Adwoa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adwoa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adwoas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adwoa was born before 2004 — so the typical Adwoa is around 21 today.

Median birth year: 2004; About 21 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 25.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 57.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 228; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 25.0% of all recorded uses (57).

Is Adwoa rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: −1,669; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 63.6%; Peak was 1989 (11)
Years since peak: 36; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 44.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #6,954; 1989

Spellings of Adwoa

Adwoa is not the most common spelling — Ada is, with 69.2% against Adwoa's 0.15%.

Ada69.2%106,905
Adela9.1%14,105
Adina4.8%7,364
Adria4.2%6,506
Adia1.9%2,968
Adara1.9%2,917
Adora1.5%2,373
Adira1.2%1,889

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Adwoa is used

Across 1910–2025, Adwoa was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Adwoa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Adwoa around the world

Where Adwoa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
1998–2025
#4,201
in 2025
South Australia
1984–1984
#661
in 1984

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Adwoa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #11,956
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #6,954; 1989
Peak year: 1989; 11 that year
First recorded: 1977
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 228
Count in 2025: 7

Names similar to Adwoa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Adwita Adwitiya Nanaadwoa

Sibling names for Adwoa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Jessika Kandace Kristian Shantel Kala Breanne Linsey Danyelle

For a brother

Elizabeth Derrell Garrick Coty Kelsey Bradly Laron Brandan

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