Kwési

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Kwési is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Conquering strength.

rarermore common
  • GYGuyana1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 179K
  • FIFinland1 in 310K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,065 people, 2020

Sources
34 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kwesi in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Conquering strength

Sources 1

  • The book of African names

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kwési counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Kwési is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,0651 in 312K1.1KKwesi26
GY Guyana2781 in 2.7K278——
SE Sweden571 in 179K57——
NL Netherlands481 in 360K48——
FI Finland181 in 310K45——

1,065 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kwési is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ghana, United States, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

    Also written Kwesi

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kwési under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Kwési mean, and where does it come from?
Conquering strength Recorded by The book of African names.
Is Kwési a male or female name?
Kwési is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Kwési have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Kwési, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kwesi.
Where is Kwési most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kwési is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 2.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kwési?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,065 people named Kwési in 2020, about 1 in 312 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kwési”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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