🇬🇭 🇨🇮Akan (Asante, Fante and kin)
Ghana’s largest family of peoples; day names, outdooring, and the knocking rite.
Customs they practice
2 recorded rites, each with its steps and its WHY.
Outdooring · the Akan and Ga eighth-day naming
On the eighth day the newborn is brought outdoors for the first time, shown to the sky and community, and given names including the day name that every Akan and Ga person carries.
🇬🇭 🇨🇮 🇹🇬 🇧🇯Akan · Ga · Ewe
The knocking · kɔkɔɔkɔ
The Akan opening rite of marriage: the groom’s family formally "knocks" at the bride’s family house with drinks and gifts to announce their intention and ask permission to court.
🇬🇭 🇨🇮Akan
Names from this tradition
31 names in the decoder, meaning first.
Kwame
AI-aggregatedA boy born on Saturday.
Day name🇬🇭 🇨🇮Akan (Ghana & Côte d’Ivoire)
Kofi
AI-aggregatedA boy born on Friday.
Day name🇬🇭 🇨🇮Akan (Ghana & Côte d’Ivoire)
Kwaku
AI-aggregatedA boy born on Wednesday.
Day name🇬🇭 🇨🇮Akan (Ghana & Côte d’Ivoire)
Akosua
AI-aggregatedA girl born on Sunday.
Day name🇬🇭 🇨🇮Akan (Ghana & Côte d’Ivoire)
Ama
AI-aggregatedA girl born on Saturday.
Day name🇬🇭 🇨🇮Akan (Ghana & Côte d’Ivoire)
Mensah
AI-aggregatedThe third-born child.
Surname & clan🇬🇭 🇨🇮Akan & Ga (Ghana)
Akua
AI-aggregatedborn on Monday
Given name🇬🇭 🇨🇮Akan (Ghana)
Adwoa
AI-aggregatedborn on Monday
Given name🇬🇭 🇨🇮Akan (Ghana)
Abena
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Given name🇬🇭 🇨🇮Akan (Ghana)
Yaa
AI-aggregatedborn on Thursday
Given name🇬🇭 🇨🇮Akan (Ghana)
Kwabena
AI-aggregatedborn on Tuesday
Given name🇬🇭 🇨🇮Akan (Ghana)
Afua
AI-aggregatedborn on Friday
Given name🇬🇭 🇨🇮Akan (Ghana)