Afua
Last seen for girls in 2014 at #14,558
- Peak · girls
- 1990 · 12 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 200since 1972
Afua over time
Rank among girls' names. Afua has never cracked the top 6,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
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| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 |
| 2013 | — | |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 |
| 2009 | — | |
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| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 |
| 2006 | — | |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 |
| 2000 | #7,158 | 14 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 |
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| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 |
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| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 |
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| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 |
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| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 |
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| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 |
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| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Afua! It came in at #7,292, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1973–1977, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Afua is popular in 1972
No state had 5 or more girls named Afua in 1972, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Afua
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2014
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 1990 at #6,867 (12 births)
- Births halved by 1991, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 129,717 girls born in 2000 were named Afua (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 297,726 girls born in 2014 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #6,867 in 1990, was only 1 in 158,212 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 35.5% of all girls named Afua (71) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 13 | #7,292 (1972) | #7,471 |
| 1980s | 41 | #8,224 (1982) | #9,608 |
| 1990s | 71 | #6,867 (1990) | #9,237 |
| 2000s | 57 | #7,158 (2000) | #11,966 |
| 2010s | 18 | #13,483 (2012) | #15,011 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Afua in 1972
Top girls' names in 1972
More about 1972
girls
1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 253,541 of them was named Afua, which outranked 24.6% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,558Yukiko7
- #6,558Zorina7
- #6,558Zully7
- #7,292Afua6
- #7,292Adonia6
- #7,292Aggie6
- #7,292Ailsa6
- #8,292Aarona5
- #8,292Abigale5
- #8,292Adabel5
Tied with 999 names at #7,292; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.