Boy · Akan, through English
Cudjoe
Say it: KUD-joh
Meaning
An English-spelled form of the Akan day name Kwadwo, given to a boy born on Monday.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Recorded across the Caribbean and the American South from the colonial period into the 19th century.
Its wave through time
No birth counts are recorded for this name in the records loaded here: it has been given to fewer than five babies a year, or not at all, since records began.
Through the ages
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Cudjo, Cudjoh
Famous bearers
- Cudjoe, leader of the Leeward Maroons of Jamaica
- Cudjo Lewis (Kossola), survivor of the slave ship Clotilda
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Where this comes from
- Colonial records of the Americas
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
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