The AkanNaming Website
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A web application that takes a user's birthday and calculates the day of the week they were born and then depending on their gender outputs their Akan Name.
What are Akan Names?
Akan names are derived from Ghanaian culture. Frequently in Ghana, children are given their first name as a 'day name' which corresponds to the day in the week they were born.
We are a meta-ethnicity living in the southern regions of present-day Ghana, formerly known as the Gold Coast..
Here are some Ghanaian-names:
Male
- Sunday: Kwasi
- Monday: Kwadwo
- Tuesday: Kwabena
- Wednesday: Kwaku
- Thursday: Yaw
- Friday: Kofi
- Saturday: Kwame
Female
- Sunday: Akosua
- Monday: Adwoa
- Tuesday: Abenaa
- Wednesday: Akua
- Thursday: Yaa
- Friday: Afua
- Saturday: Ama