Kwamè
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kwamè is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ghana than in any other country, where it is the 9th most common given name. Recorded meaning: An ancient and traditional Akan day-name meaning "from Amen/Amon/Amun" that may be given to a male child born on a Saturday.
- GHGhana≈1 in 820(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 4.7K
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis≈1 in 21K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ghana (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 366 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 816 (inferred from the name graph)
≈42,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kwame in GH Ghana, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 4 more.
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)An ancient and traditional Akan day-name meaning "from Amen/Amon/Amun" that may be given to a male child born on a Saturday. Popularized in the 1960s when Kwame Nkrumah was the Prime Minister of Ghana.
Cited for this meaning 2
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- Wiktionary
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kwamè 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | #9 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 816 | 161K | Kwame | 125 |
| US United States | — | 4,356 | 1 in 76K | 4.3K | Kwame | 366 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Kwame | 155 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 205K | — | Kwame | 24 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Kwame | 36 |
| LY Libya | #915 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Kwame | 2 |
| GY Guyana | #439 | 159 | 1 in 4.7K | 159 | Kwame | 4 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 11 | — | 4 |
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: Heuristic parse of ghanacitizenship.com; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kwamè mean, and where does it come from?
- An ancient and traditional Akan day-name meaning "from Amen/Amon/Amun" that may be given to a male child born on a Saturday. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and Wiktionary.
- Is Kwamè a male or female name?
- Kwamè 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 Kwamè have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Kwamè in Ghana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kwame.
- How common is the name Kwamè?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,356 people named Kwamè in 2020, about 1 in 76 thousand residents.
- How common is Kwamè compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Kwamè is the 9th most common given name of 14,081 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kwam%C3%A8The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Kwamè” — the 9th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.