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Akosua

#11,980 in 2025Girls' name

Sunday

Akosua has been given to 362 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #11,980 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Akosua, 2025

1 in 474,000

Akosua over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Akosua: meaning, origin, and history

Sunday

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Akosua means

Akosua means “Sunday”, associated with Kwasiada.

Origin, language, and formation

Akosua is used in Akan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 362 girls were recorded with the name Akosua between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2003; its best national rank was #6,052 in 1976.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,572 in 2020 to #11,980 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,910 in 2015 to #11,980 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Akosua?

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
#11,980
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Akosua 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 Akosua. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Akosuas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Akosua was born before 2002 — so the typical Akosua is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
23.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
362
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Choose a decade

2000s — 23.8% of all recorded uses (86).

Is Akosua 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
+1,562
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,408
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,070
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.78×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.7%
Peak was 2003 (15)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,052
1976

Spellings of Akosua

Akosua is not the most common spelling — Akasha is, with 61.0% against Akosua's 15.4%.

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 Akosua is used

Across 1910–2025, Akosua was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,389,600 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 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. Akosua has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Akosua around the world

Where Akosua 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
    1996–2025
    #2,006
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–1995
    #2,576
    in 1995

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Akosua by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,980
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,408
Best rank ever
#6,052
1976
Peak year
2003
15 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
362
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Akosua

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

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Sibling names for Akosua

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

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