Boy · Akan, through English
Quamina
Say it: KWAH-mih-nah
Meaning
An English-spelled form of the Akan day name Kwame or Kwamina, given to a boy born on Saturday.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Recorded among enslaved men in the Caribbean, Guiana and the American colonies.
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
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Quamino, Quamin
Famous bearers
- Quamina Gladstone, a leader of the 1823 Demerara rebellion
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Where this comes from
- Colonial records of the Americas
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