Nicknames in Ghana.

In Ghana, there's a thing where men and women get a name based on the day of the week that they're born on, like "Kwame" and "Kweku" for boys, and other names for girls and whatnot.

Lately at work at my one resthome job, a few of my (Ghanaian) coworkers had necklaces with that name on their neck, and since it wasn't their name that they used at work, I asked one of them about it.

She said that they all have "Christian" names now, but that the day name is their second name, then there's their family name, and that the day name is what's used at home.

I then asked her and another coworker who walked up what would happen if there was a family with a few kids of the same sex all born on the same day, like let's say the family had seven kids and there were five girls and three of the girls were all born on Saturday.

She then said that they'd then all get their same day name, but people might call the oldest "Queen [the day name]," the next one "Mama [the day name]," and stuff like that, to keep them separate.

Later, the (Ghanaian-American) manager said that she was the first one at work to get that kind of necklace, and afterwards everyone else began imitating her.