Kwabena

given name · English · Latin script

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

Kwabena is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ghana, where it is the 99th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Akan (Ghana): male name for a Tuesday-born child.

rarermore common
  • GHGhana1 in 2K◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 88K
  • USUnited States1 in 236K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.8K ●

across 9 countries

Sources
203 ●

18K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 94K ◐

Guyana

Meaning & origin●

Akan (Ghana): male name for a Tuesday-born child.

Sources 1

  • African Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Kwabena is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GH Ghana#998,7294.4K rec.—95KKwabena106
GB United Kingdom—2,3401.2K rec.—listedKwabena91
US United States—1,41110K rec.1 in 236K1.4KKwabena203
DE Germany—304271 rec.—2Kwabena49
AU Australia—270246 rec.——Kwabena30
EG Egypt—238235 rec.——Kwabena5
IT Italy—199284 rec.——Kwabena12
ZA South Africa—191198 rec.——Kwabena21
CA Canada—178148 rec.—1Kwabena39
NL Netherlands—114142 rec.1 in 152K114Kwabena25
ES Spain—88131 rec.1 in 568K88Kwabena30
SE Sweden—88△8 rec.1 in 116K88—6

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

Languages●

  • English22K77%
  • Swahili1.3K5%
  • Spanish8153%
  • 7313%
  • Arabic6262%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English21,51677%
Swahili1,3305%
Spanish8153%
7313%
Arabic6262%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

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

  • a separate given name886 records spelled Kwabena2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ghana, United Kingdom, South Africa

    Also written Kwabéna

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses●

Kwabena 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.

  • Born on Tuesday

    as a nameThe book of African names

  • Bom on Tuesday

    as a nameA Handbook of African Names

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.

Over time●

010203019701980199020002010202028 · 2004

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Kwabena in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1970–2025
Yearrecords
19705
19715
19727
19738
197410
197510
19766
197712
197812
197910
198012
19816
19825
198312
19847
19865
198712
19885
198912
199019
199110
19927
199310
199411
199511
199611
199720
199815
199914
200014
200116
200220
200320
200428
200516
200615
200721
200814
200918
201020
201118
201222
201320
201415
201512
201616
20177
201814
201919
202015
202112
202210
202314
202416
202515

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 55 years between 1970–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1900195020002050J. H. Kwabena Nketia, b. 1921Fritz Kwabena Poku, b. 1945Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, b. 1949Kwabena Donkor, b. 1958Kwabena Amankwa Asiamah, b. 1958Kwabena Boahen, b. 1964Dizzee Rascal, b. 1984Kwabs, b. 1990Kwabena Appiah-Kubi, b. 1992Prince Kwabena Adu, b. 2003

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 35 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Kwabena
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
GH GhanaHeuristic parse of ghanacitizenship.com202695K#48
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.4K#9,692
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—114#4,080
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—88#9,286
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—88#17,494
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—79#8,870
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—71#6,328
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—31#62,892
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—31#61,483
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)200428—
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—25—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—24#17,281

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 119 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Kwabena?
We estimate roughly 1.8 thousand people bear Kwabena (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Kwabena have the most bearers?
Kwabena is most frequently recorded in Ghana, where it is most often spelled kwabena.
How common is Kwabena compared with other names?
In Ghana, Kwabena is the 99th most common given name of 14,190 given names recorded there.
Is Kwabena a male or female name?
Kwabena 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.
What does the name Kwabena mean?
Recorded meaning: Akan (Ghana): male name for a Tuesday-born child.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Kwabena” — the 99th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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