Akwasi

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Born on Sunday

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ækwɔsi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Akwasi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ghana than in any other country, where it is the 36th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • GHGhana≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 328K
  • USUnited States1 in 794K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Ghana (inferred from the name graph)

≈9,600 people, est.

Sources
158 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 449 (inferred from the name graph)

Marshall Islands, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Born on Sunday

Sources 1

  • The book of African names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Akwasi counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Akwasi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GH Ghana#36≈9,600 est.≈1 in 3K—Akwasi74
CN China—≈1,400 est.≈1 in 969K—Akwasi7
US United States—4191 in 794K415Akwasi158
GB United Kingdom—≈200 est.≈1 in 328K—Akwasi79
MH Marshall Islands#2≈170 est.≈1 in 449—Akwasi1
BE Belgium—≈65 est.≈1 in 182K—Akwasi15
IS Iceland—11 in 351K1——

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

192019401960198020002020Akwasi Afrifa, b. 1936Akwasi Osei-Adjei, b. 1949Akwasi Frimpong, b. 1986Akwasi Fobi-Edusei, b. 1986Akwasi Mensah, b. 1986Akwasi Oduro, b. 1987Akwasi Owusu-Ansah, b. 1988Akwasi Asante, b. 1992Blessing Afrifah, b. 2003Elijah Krahn, b. 2003

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Akwasi,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Akwasi?
A machine transcription gives /ækwɔsi/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Akwasi mean, and where does it come from?
Born on Sunday Recorded by The book of African names.
Is Akwasi a male or female name?
Akwasi is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Akwasi have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 9.6 thousand people named Akwasi in Ghana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled akwasi.
How common is the name Akwasi?
In the United States, the national register counted 419 people named Akwasi in 2020, about 1 in 794 thousand residents.
How common is Akwasi compared with other names?
In Ghana, Akwasi is the 36th most common given name of 14,081 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Akwasi” — the 36th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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