Weekday name
Glossary · Last updated: 2026-07-26
Akan cultures traditionally give names based on the weekday of birth. Male and female names differ. Kofi/Ama for Friday, Kwame/Akua for Saturday, and so on.
Day-soul (kra) lore adds spiritual weight to the weekday. Our Akan card shows the weekday name pair for your Gregorian birth date.
Diaspora use
Weekday names remain common in Ghana and global Akan communities. Spelling variants (Kwame vs Cwame) reflect dialect and colonial orthography.