Day names are common across ethnic groups within Ghana, and different southern ethnic groups have similar sounding names.

For instance, Kojo, Kwadwo, Jojo, Cudjo are all Monday names across different southern languages. Yaw, Yao, Yawa are Thursday names, etc.

Kwame and Komla are Tuesday names from mutually unintelligible southern languages.

It's common for foreign nationals adopted by locals to be given an appropriate day name.