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A day name is the name given to a child to reflect the day of the week on which he/she was born.
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It was customary among the plantation workers in Jamaica to call their children by the African name of the day of the week on which they were born:[citation needed]
These Akan names apply to Akan and Ewe children in Ghana:
According to Robert Sutherland Rattray, "every Ashanti child born has, as one of its names, a name derived from the particular day on which he or she was born".
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