About male akan names
How male akan names are built
An Akan result pairs a given name with one of 293 surnames, from a male given bank of 89 entries and a female bank of 88. The banks store a gloss such as Third Born or Thursday behind many given names, but the output prints the bare pair, so a pull reads as Mensah Konadu or Abena Pinaman with diacritics kept as stored.
Mensah Konadu
Mensah (given) + Konadu (surname)
a given name printed bare plus a surname from the 293-entry bank
Abena Pinaman
Abena (given) + Pinaman (surname)
female given name plus surname, printed without the stored gloss
Berko Paintsil
Berko (given, male bank) + Paintsil (surname)
male given name plus surname
Naming notes
The given banks carry day-names and count-names with meanings stored behind them, but the printed result is the bare pair: Mensah Konadu, Kaku Ohemeng, Abena Pinaman. Diacritics travel intact (Bedíàkṍ, Ám̀ma, Dúnu), and a few given entries are stored as two words, as in Ataá Pánin Gyamerah. The surname bank holds 293 plain family names.
Questions about male akan names
- Do the results show the meaning of each given name?
- No. The banks store glosses like Thursday or Third Born against many given names, but the generator prints only the bare name, so a result reads as Mensah Konadu rather than Mensah (Third Born) Konadu.
- What is the second token in each name?
- It is the surname, drawn from a bank of 293 family names like Konadu, Gyamerah and Paintsil. The given slot carries the personal name; the surname slot is plain.
- Where do the glosses come from?
- They sit inside the source data the given banks were built from; the generator keeps the names and their diacritics but does not print the glosses alongside them.