Entry № 8198 · Other origin

Poku Poku — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ POH-koo /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Akan day-name"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "akan day-name".

Poku is a girls' name meaning akan day-name.

Akan day-name.

The name in its native script.

Poku
Transliteration
Poku
Pronunciation
/ ˈpoʊ.kuː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Poku stands.

Poku 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.

Pokus before her.

Real people

In fiction
Queen Pokou ~1730 / Baoulé founder
Akan female day-name + Queen Pokou ~1730 Baoulé queen who founded Baoulé people of Cote dIvoire + Akan Twi day-naming + Ashanti Empire + ~20 million Akan speakers
African heritage

Names connected to Poku.

The number behind Poku.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Poku reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.