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.
e.g.:
- it was customary among the plantation Negroes in Jamaica "to call their children by the African name of the day of the week on which they were born." (13) And he forthwith furnishes us with a list wherein we find the following names for males: "Monday, Cudjoe; Tuesday, Cubbenah; Wednesday, Quaco; Thursday, Quao; Friday, Cuffee; Saturday, Quamin; and Sunday, Quashee."
In contemporary Ghana, these names are now more often spelt as follows:
- Monday: Kojo
- Tuesday: Kwabena
- Wednesday: Kwaku
- Thursday: Yaw
- Friday: Kofi
- Saturday: Kwame
- Sunday: Kwesi.
- Captain Rattray, in turn, informs us that "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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