Asiedu
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Grenada, 2025
/asiɛɗu/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Asiedu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Marshall Islands it is the 20th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Akan.
- GDGrenada1 in 113K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 253K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 280K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 194 (measured from records)
- 1 in 113K (inferred from the name graph)
593 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Grenada
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Akan.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where the surname Asiedu is found
(measured from records)Asiedu 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 593 | 1 in 561K | 1K | Asiedu | 194 |
| ES Spain | — | 95 | 1 in 526K | 95 | — | 23 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 41 | 1 in 421K | 41 | Asiedu | 18 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 30 | 1 in 280K | 30 | — | 6 |
| FI Finland | — | 22 | 1 in 253K | 25 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 12 | 1 in 489K | 12 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | — | 1 | 1 in 113K | 1 | — | — |
| MH Marshall Islands | #20 | — | — | — | Asiedu | 1 |
593 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Asiedu is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname from Akan.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Akofa Edjeani Asiedub. 1969GHGhanaian actress
- Anderson Asiedub. 1996GHGhanaian footballer
- Elizabeth AsieduGHGhanaian economist
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)Evidence
(measured from records)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Asiedu mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Akan. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Asiedu?
- In Swahili /asiɛɗu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Asiedu?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 593 people named Asiedu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled asiedu. After it come Spain, Netherlands, Switzerland and Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Asiedu most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Asiedu is densest in Grenada — about 1 in 113 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Asiedu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 593 people named Asiedu in 2010, about 1 in 561 thousand residents.
- How common is Asiedu compared with other names?
- In Marshall Islands, Asiedu is the 20th most common surname of 150 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Asiedu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/asieduThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Asiedu” — the 20th most common surname in Marshall Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.