Entry № 46 · Akan origin

Abena Abena — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-BEH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Akan
Meaning
"Born on Tuesday"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Akan)

A name that means "born on tuesday".

Abena is a Twi (Akan) day name from Ghana — meaning "born on Tuesday." In Akan tradition, every child receives a day name based on the day of birth. Tuesday's male equivalent is Kwabena.

Abena is widely used across Ghana and the Akan diaspora.

Born on Tuesday — a Akan name.

The name in its native script.

Abena
Transliteration
Abena
Pronunciation
/ əˈbɛn.ə /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Abena stands.

Abena does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Abenas before her.

Real people
Abena Busia
Ghanaian scholar and former ambassador.
born 1953
In fiction

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Names connected to Abena.

The number behind Abena.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Abena reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.