Afua — girls' name

What the Data Says About Afua

The Social Security Administration has registered 200 babies named Afua between 1972 and 2014, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Afua currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 14 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Afua performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 71 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Afua shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Afua in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Afua in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 200 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.