Given name
Afua
“born on a Friday”
Afua is used as a given name. One African interpretation is “born on a Friday.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One African interpretation is “born on a Friday.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is African.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1972. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Afua through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 200
- 0 boys · 200 girls
- Most popular year
- 2000
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 14 in 2000. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 701 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Afua’s family of names
Afua has a related form in Afiah. Afua has a related form in Afooa. Afua has a related form in Afooah.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Afua
- Afua HirschBritish writer and broadcasterborn 1981
- Afua Adwo Jectey HesseGhanaian paediatric surgeonborn 1953
- Afua RichardsonAfrican-American comics artistborn 1980
- Afua OseiAmerican entrepreneur
- Afua KumaGhanaian oral theologian1908–1987
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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