Kobina
Origin
Akan
Syllables
3
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
“Tuesday-born male in the Fante (coastal Akan) form of the Akan day-name system, the dialect variant of Kwabena”
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890srare in US records2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Kobina has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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