AKAN DAY NAMES
What is Akan Day Names?
Akan day names is a fate-reading practice from the Akan people of West Africa that assigns a distinct “soul name” (kra) based on the day of the week a person is born, and reads the traits that name is said to reveal. The correspondence between weekday and name is a widely rooted traditional naming custom, and it is also passed down as a form of personality reading.
Overview
- System
- Fate Reading (determines and reads a soul name from the day of the week of birth)
- Origin
- Ghana (Akan people)
- What You Need
- Date of birth (day of the week)
- Best For
- Life, love
- Time Frame
- Whole lifetime
Origins & History
Akan day names are a traditional naming custom passed down among the Akan people, who live mainly in Ghana in West Africa. A distinct “soul name” (kra din) — one for males and one for females — is assigned to each day of the week, and many Akan people carry this day name as part of their given name.
The correspondence between the day of the week and the name itself is a well-documented custom, widely confirmed in ethnographic sources. However, the detailed accounts of the personality and temperament each day name is said to reveal vary considerably by tradition and region, and systematically verified academic sources on this point remain limited.
How It Works
- 01Identify the day of the week (one of seven) on which a person was born, based on their date of birth.
- 02Look up the “soul name” (kra din) that corresponds to that day.
- 03Check the personality and temperament traits traditionally associated with that name.
- 04Read these traits as a reference for tendencies in love and life.
What It Reveals
This is well suited to casually reading innate personality tendencies from information that anyone can know — the day of the week one was born. However, it is a simplified system based on only seven categories, and the details of the character descriptions vary considerably by tradition, so it has limits as a tool for precise individual analysis.
Related Methods
References
- Wikipedia: Akan names (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akan_names)