Efua
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛfuə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Efua is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 351K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 371K
- SESweden1 in 600K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 351K (inferred from the name graph)
182 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Efua 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 | 182 | 1 in 1.8M | 174 | Efua | 16 |
| NL Netherlands | 27 | 1 in 640K | 27 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 17 | 1 in 600K | 17 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 15 | 1 in 371K | 26 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
182 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; 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)
- Efua Sutherlandb. 1924GHGhanaian writer, publisher, educationalist and cultural activist (1924–1996)
- Afua Adwo Jectey Hesseb. 1953GHnot in their usual nameGhanaian paediatric surgeon
- Afua Cooperb. 1957CAnot in their usual nameJamaican-born Canadian multidisciplinary scholar, artist, and academic (born 1957)
- Efua Bakerb. 1970GHBritish singer
- Smile Dzisib. 1971GHnot in their usual nameVice-chancellor of Koforidua Tech. University
- Efua Traoréb. 1976NGNigerian-German writer
- Afua Richardsonb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAfrican-American comics artist
- Afua Hirschb. 1981GBnot in their usual nameBritish writer and broadcaster
- Efua GharteyGHGhanaian lawyer
- Afua OseiGHnot in their usual nameAmerican entrepreneur
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)
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 15 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 174 | #40,711 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 27 | #12,290 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 26 | #15,131 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 17 | #26,805 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 15 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #29,766 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8 | #40,711 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 6 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 5 | #42,347 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 5 | — |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Efua?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛfuə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Efua a male or female name?
- Efua is a female 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.
- What are other forms of the name Efua?
- In the etymology graph, Afia and Afua are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Efua have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 182 people named Efua, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled efua.
- Where is Efua most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Efua is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 351 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Efua?
- In the United States, the national register counted 182 people named Efua in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Efua?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/efuaThe 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, “Efua”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.