Meaning: Its source is an Akan expression meaning "Girl born on Tuesday."

Languages: This girl's name is used in Ewe.

Alternative Spellings: Abrah

Narrative: This name, like many other day names found across the west coast of Africa, may have originated from the time of the Ashanti empire.

The Ashanti of Ghana ruled various other tribes -- including the Agni and Baule of the Ivory Coast and Ghana and the Ewe of Ghana, Togo and Benin -- in the 18th and 19th centuries. In Akan, the language spoken by the Ashanti, it is traditional to name children after their day of birth. The Ashanti may have imposed this practice on the people they conquered.