Boy · Akan (Twi and Fante), Ghana
Kwame
Say it: KWAH-may
Meaning
An Akan day name meaning a boy born on Saturday.
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
Fading since the 1990s
In the United States
- 3,775 babies given this name since 1960
- At its height in 1990, about 1 in 6,900 boys
- 52 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Kwami
Famous bearers
- Kwame Nkrumah, first president of Ghana
- Kwame Ture, American civil rights activist
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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
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