Yaw

Yaw is a masculine given name originating from the Akan people and their day naming system, meaning born on a Thursday.
Yaw Antwi (born 1985), Ghanaian footballer playing in Serbia
Yaw Amankwah Mireku (born 1979), Ghanaian footballer
Yaw Asante (born 1991), Ghanaian footballer playing in Italy
Yaw Berko (born 1980), Ghanaian footballer playing in Tanzania
Yaw Danso (born 1989), Ghanaian footballer playing in Puerto Rico
Yaw Fosu-Amoah (born 1981), South African long jumper
Yaw Frimpong (born 1986), Ghanaian footballer playing in Congo
Yaw Ihle Amankwah (born 1988), Ghanaian footballer playing in Norway
Yaw Ofori Debrah, Ghanaian disabled rights activist
Yaw Osafo-Marfo, Ghanaian politician and former minister for Education and Finance
Yaw Preko (born 1974), Ghanaian former international footballer
George Yaw Boakye (1937–1979), Ghanaian airman and politician
Joachim Yaw (born 1973), Ghanaian former international footballer and Olympic medalist
Lawrence Henry Yaw Ofosu-Appiah (1920–1990), Ghanaian academic and director of the Encyclopedia Africana
Nana Yaw Konadu Yeboah (born 1964), Ghanaian boxer and former world champion
Nicholas Yaw Boafo Adade, Ghanaian former supreme court judge
Paul Yaw Addo (born 1990), Ghanaian footballer playing in Norway
Samuel Yaw Adusei, Ghanaian politician
William Yaw Obeng (born 1983), Ghanaian former American football offensive lineman

The Akan people of Ghana and the Ivory Coast frequently name their children after the day of the week they were born and the order in which they were born. These "day names" have further meanings concerning the soul and character of the person. Middle names have considerably more variety and can refer to their birth order, twin status, or an ancestor's middle name.
This naming tradition is shared throughout West Africa and the African diaspora. During the 18th–19th centuries, slaves in the Caribbean from the region that is modern-day Ghana were referred to as Coromantees. Many of the leaders of slave rebellions had "day names" including Cuffy or Kofi, Cudjoe or Kojo, and Quamina or Kwame/Kwamina.
Most Ghanaians have at least one name from this system, even if they also have an English or Christian name. Notable figures with day names include Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah and former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
In the official orthography of the Twi language, the Ashanti versions of these names as spoken in Kumasi are as follows. The diacritics on á a̍ à represent high, mid, and low tone (tone does not need to be marked on every vowel), while the diacritic on a̩ is used for vowel harmony and can be ignored. (Diacritics are frequently dropped in any case.) Variants of the names are used in other languages, or may represent different transliteration schemes. The variants mostly consist of different affixes (in Ashanti, kwa- or ko- for men and a- plus -a or -wa for women). For example, among the Fante, the prefixes are kwe- and e-, respectively. Akan d̩wo is pronounced something like English Joe, but there do appear to be two sets of names for those born on Tuesday.

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"to fall away from the line of a course," 1580s (as a noun 1540s), perhaps ultimately from Old Norse jaga, Old Danish jæge "to drive, chase," from Middle Low German jagen (see yacht).

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Means born on Thursday in Akan.

Kwabena, Kofi, Akwasi, Kwame, Kwaku, Kwadwo, Yaa

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Yaw Yeboah	1997	Ghanaian association football player
2	Wee Cho Yaw	1929	Singaporean billionaire
3	Yaw Shin Leong	1976	Singaporean businessman
4	Yaw Osafo-Maafo	1942	Former Ghanaian MP and Finance Minister
5	Yaw Frimpong	1986	Ghanaian footballer
6	Yaw Preko	1974	Ghanian footballer
7	Yaw Kiti Glymin	1993
8	Ellen Beach Yaw	1869	American coloratura soprano
9	Yaw Osei-Owusu		American singer and songwriter
10	Yaw Ihle Amankwah	1988	Ghanaian-Norwegian footballer
11	Yaw Antwi	1985	Ghanaian footballer
12	Yaw Amankwah Mireku	1979	Ghanaian footballer
13	Eugene Yaw	1943	American politician
14	Yaw Penxe	1997
15	Joachim Yaw	1973	Ghanaian footballer
16	Yaw Asante	1991	Ghanaian footballer
17	John Lee Hiong Fun-Yit Yaw	1933	Catholic bishop
18	Yaw Berko	1980	Ghanaian footballer
19	Yaw Danso	1989	Ghanaian footballer
20	Yaw Fosu-Amoah	1981	South African long jumper
21	Yaw Osei
22	Yaw Ansong Jr.
23	Toh Chin Yaw
24	Yaw Arnol	1997
25	Yaw Ofori Debrah		Ghanaian activist
26	Parrish Yaw		American keyboardist
27	Yaw Sam	1945	Ghanaian association football player