Kwakye
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kwækaɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kwakye is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Ghana it is the 98th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 304K
- SESweden1 in 537K
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)
- Sources
- 139 (measured from records)
- 1 in 304K (inferred from the name graph)
262 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kwakye 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 262 | 1 in 1.3M | 476 | Kwakye | 139 |
| ES Spain | — | 27 | 1 in 1.9M | 27 | — | 13 |
| BE Belgium | — | 21 | 1 in 558K | 21 | Kwakye | 6 |
| SE Sweden | — | 19 | 1 in 537K | 19 | — | 4 |
| NO Norway | — | 18 | 1 in 304K | 18 | — | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 15 | 1 in 560K | 15 | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 14 | 1 in 1.2M | 14 | Kwakye | 12 |
| GH Ghana | #98 | — | — | 43K | Kwakye | 63 |
262 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Ghana top-100 surnames (surnam.es); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- K.K. Kabobob. 1960GHnot in their usual nameGhanaian highlife musician
- Benjamin Kwakyeb. 1967GHGhanaian writer
- Georgina Kwakyeb. 1979NLDutch actress
- Jeanette Kwakyeb. 1983GBBritish sprinter
- Cass KwakyeAUAustralian academic
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | Ghana top-100 surnames (surnam.es) | — | 43K | #86 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 476 | #47,959 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 262 | #73,911 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 130 | #122,534 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 27 | #69,222 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 27 | #67,696 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 21 | #46,008 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 19 | #26,165 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 18 | #44,823 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 15 | #45,119 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 14 | #57,136 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kwakye?
- A machine transcription gives /kwækaɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kwakye have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 262 people named Kwakye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kwakye.
- Where is Kwakye most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kwakye is densest in Norway — about 1 in 304 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kwakye?
- In the United States, the national register counted 262 people named Kwakye in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Kwakye compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Kwakye is the 98th most common surname of 36,883 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kwakye?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kwakyeThe 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, “Kwakye” — the 98th most common surname in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.