Akan Baby Names

Dictionary of Asante and Fante Baby names with Appellations and Meaning

The Akan tribe is the largest in Ghana commanding a population of more than 12 million in Ghana and about 8 million in La Cote d'Voire.

Due to the Trans Sahara Slave Trade there are communities in Southern America which host some handful Akan. This app seeks to project the names of Akan people and provide their meaning.

The app addresses personal names among the Akan of Ghana and considers naming as an important aspect of the Akan society. The paper looks at Akan names within the purview of linguistics anthropology. It considers names as not being arbitrary labels but socio-cultural tags that have socio-cultural functions and meanings. The app discusses the typology of Akan names.

These include

(1) day names,

(2) family names,

(3) circumstantial names,

(4) theophorous names,

(5) flora and fauna names,

(6) weird and reincarnate names,

(7)achievement names, stool names, religious, occupational, etc.

(8) insinuating and proverbial names,

(9) bodily structure and

(10) kinship etc.

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