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Nkrumah

Akan · Surname · unisex · birth order name

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.

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

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The ninth-born child (also Akron). Best known as the surname of Kwame Nkrumah — Kwame for a Saturday birth, Nkrumah for being the ninth child.

This surname comes from Nkroma, the birth-order name for a ninth-born child.

Other Akan surnames

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.

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