Weekday name
Glossary · Last updated: 2026-07-26
Akan cultures traditionally give names based on the weekday of birth. Male and female names differ. Kwaku and Akua for Wednesday. Kofi and Afua for Friday. Kwame and Ama for Saturday. Other weekdays have their own pairs.
Day-soul (kra) stories adds spiritual weight to the weekday. Our Akan card shows the weekday name pair for your Gregorian birth date.
Example: see it on a birth date
A weekday name is the Akan birth name for the day of the week. March 27, 2022 is a Sunday, so the names are Kwasi and Akosua.
Weekday names follow the day of the week. They do not follow the sun sign, which is Aries on this date.
Enter your own date on the Zodiac Sign Calculator.
Diaspora use
Weekday names remain common in Ghana and global Akan communities. Spelling variants (Kwame vs Cwame) reflect dialect and colonial spelling.
Related
Main reading and tools
These are the main reading and calculator pages. Use them for a daily note, a birth-sign tool, or a pair check.
- Today's Horoscope hubAll twelve Western sun-sign daily pages, plus links to the seven-tradition reader.
- Horoscope & Zodiac CompatibilityTwo birth dates for Western, Chinese, and Indian Vedic pairing, plus every sun-sign hub.
- Zodiac Sign CalculatorWestern sun sign from birth date, with element, modality, and ruler.
- Rising Sign CalculatorIndian Vedic Lagna estimate when you have birth date, time, and place.
- Moon Sign CalculatorIndian Vedic Janma Rashi and nakshatra when birth time and city are available.