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Akua

#10,131 in 2025Girls' name

Born on Wednesday

Akua has been given to 554 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #10,131 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1978, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Akua, 2025

1 in 368,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Akua: meaning, origin, and history

Born on Wednesday

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Akua means

Akua means “born on Wednesday”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 554 girls were recorded with the name Akua between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1978; its best national rank was #4,155 in 1976.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,135 in 2020 to #10,131 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #16,523 in 2015 to #10,131 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.

How common is Akua?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,131
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Akua 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Akua. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Akuas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Akua was born before 1996 — so the typical Akua is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
23.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
554
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 23.5% of all recorded uses (130).

Is Akua 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
−1,175
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,004
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,392
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.80×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
56.3%
Peak was 1978 (16)
Years since peak
47
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,155
1976

Spellings of Akua

Akua is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 43.1% against Akua's 0.03%.

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 Akua is used

Across 1910–2025, Akua was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 285,918 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in —
  2. 2New 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. Akua has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Akua around the world

Where Akua 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
    1997–2025
    #2,605
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–1994
    #2,260
    in 1994

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.

Akua by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,131
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,004
Best rank ever
#4,155
1976
Peak year
1978
16 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
554
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Akua

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

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Sibling names for Akua

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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