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Boy · Akan (Twi and Fante), Ghana
Kwaku
Say it: KWAH-koo
Meaning
An Akan day name meaning a boy born on Wednesday.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Akan day names reached the Americas with enslaved West Africans, and the original forms were taken up again by some African American parents from the 1960s onward.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 445 babies given this name since 1970
- At its height in 1995, about 1 in 105,700 boys
- 11 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Kweku
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.