girl's name

Afua

  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 4
  • Popularity Rare
  • Births on record 264

Afua is a girl's name. In 2014 it was given to 6 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

  • Peaked in 2000, when 14 babies were given the name.
  • It has largely dropped out of use.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1972.

Afua over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1970s to 2010s. The striped bar is the 2010s, still in progress — it covers 2010 to 2014, not a full ten years.

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'70 '80 '90 '00 '10
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Births named Afua by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1970s 13
1980s 41
1990s 71
2000s 57
2010s (to 2014) 18

How popular is Afua?

In 2014, Afua was given to 6 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Where Afua is used

England & Wales #5,670 4 in 2025
United States #15,875 6 in 2014

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

Names that peaked alongside Afua

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Afua also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Afua over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Sibling names for Afua

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Afua — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Afua

How popular is the name Afua?

In 2014, Afua was given to 6 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Is Afua a girl's or a boy's name?

Afua is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Afua most popular?

Afua peaked in 2000, when 14 babies were given the name. It has largely dropped out of use.

Is Afua a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Afua currently ranks #5,670 in the United States. It has largely dropped out of use. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.