Boduah as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Boduah

What is the meaning of the name Boduah ?

The baby name Boduah is a Unisex name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced BOH-doo-ah.

Boduah is in Origin.

Boduah (boh-DOO-ah) is an Akan name from Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. Its core is Akan ba “child” + du “ten,” with the feminine/nominal ending -a/-wa, yielding the sense “tenth-born (child),” traditionally feminine but now sometimes unisex. The final h reflects older Anglicized spellings found in mission and colonial records.

In Akan birth-order naming, Boduah/Badua identified a child’s place in a large family alongside day names (e.g., Kofi, Afua). The name appears in 19th–20th century Gold Coast church and court records, and today survives both as a given name and, through matrilineal inheritance, a surname. Common variants and cognates include Badua, Baduah, Badu (masc.), Boaduah, Boadu, Baidoo, and Baidoe; regional pronunciation and colonial transcription account for the differences. Usage remains strongest among Fante and Asante speakers, with growing visibility in the Ghanaian diaspora.

⚙ Boduah is an extremely rare name. Across our dataset of national birth registries and international name records, Boduah appears only 1 time in total — found in 1 country. If you're considering it, you'd be giving your child a name almost nobody else has.