A web application that takes a user's birthday and calculates the day of the week they were born, and then depending on their gender shows their Akan Name. Akan names are derived from Ghanian culture in West Africa. Children are given their first name as a 'day name' which corresponds to the day in the week they were born.

• Sunday:Kwasi
• Monday:Kwadwo
• Tuesday:Kwabena
• Wednesday:Kwaku
• Thursday:Yaw
• Friday:Kofi
• Saturday:Kwame

• Sunday:Akosua
• Monday:Adwoa
• Tuesday:Abeena
• Wednesday:Akua
• Thursday:Yaa
• Friday:Afua
• Saturday:Ama

The app has been published on Github pages, check it out!

Follow the steps below to run this HTML site on your laptop

mkdir project
cd project
git clone https://github.com/tisurai/akan
cd akan

• Open the file index.html in your browser

• HTML5
• JavaScript - with a lot of help from repl.it
• CSS

• Natali Panichkina

• Tim Johnson

The formula used to calculate the day of the week from the birth date can be found here

Timothy Matara

Akan Name Calculator is licensed under the MIT License.