Day name
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A day name is the name given to a child to reflect the day of the week on which he/she was born.
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[edit] Jamaica
It was customary among the plantation workers in Jamaica to call their children by the African name of the day of the week on which they were born:[citation needed]
- Monday: Cudjoe
- Tuesday: Cubbenah
- Wednesday: Quaco
- Thursday: Quao
- Friday: Cuffee
- Saturday: Quamin
- Sunday: Quashee
[edit] Akan and Ewe people
These Akan names apply to Akan and Ewe children in Ghana:
[edit] Male names
- Monday: Kojo
- Tuesday: Kwabena
- Wednesday: Kwaku
- Thursday: Yaw
- Friday: Kofi
- Saturday: Kwame
- Sunday: Kwesi
[edit] Female names
- Monday: Adjoa
- Tuesday: Abena
- Wednesday: Akua
- Thursday: Yaa
- Friday: Afua
- Saturday: Ama
- Sunday: Akosua
[edit] Ashanti
According to Robert Sutherland Rattray, "every Ashanti child born has, as one of its names, a name derived from the particular day on which he or she was born".
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