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Mensah

Akan · Surname · unisex · birth order name

From Mensa, the birth-order name for a third-born son. One of the most common surnames in Ghana, carried by families regardless of the bearer's own birth position.

Source: Akan birth-order surname, cross-referenced across Wikipedia (Akan names), wisdomlib (Mensah), and independent Ghanaian naming guides

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The third-born son. Female form: Mansa. This is the origin of the surname Mensah.

This surname comes from Mensa, the birth-order name for a third-born son.

Other Akan surnames

From Nkroma, the birth-order name for a ninth-born child, carried on as a family name — most famously by Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah.

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