Mwami

surname · Latin script

Meaning: pers. name, Kirundi

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Mwami is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Kenya.

rarermore common
  • ZMZambia
  • TZTanzania
  • KEKenya

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

pers. name, Kirundi

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.

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

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Mwami is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Chief, master, husband.

    as a nameThe African book of names

  • In English, A traditional king or ruler in various African nations.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Mwami 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 Mwami mean, and where does it come from?
pers. name, Kirundi Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
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Mwami is most frequently recorded in Kenya.

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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, “Mwami”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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