Kweku
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kweku is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ghana. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.
- GHGhana1 in 7.8K◐
- USUnited States1 in 1M
- GYGuyana1 in 107K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈433 ●
- Sources
- 160 ●
- 1 in 107K ◐
across 9 countries
5.2K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | #145 | 2,183 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Kweku | 78 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 544 | 260 rec. | — | — | Kweku | 55 |
| US United States | — | 329 | 2.6K rec. | 1 in 1M | 329 | Kweku | 160 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 122 | 116 rec. | — | — | Kweku | 18 |
| AU Australia | — | 78 | 86 rec. | — | 1 | Kweku | 16 |
| DE Germany | — | 78 | 79 rec. | — | — | Kweku | 22 |
| CA Canada | — | 65 | 62 rec. | — | 1 | Kweku | 30 |
| SE Sweden | — | 52△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 196K | 52 | — | 6 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 44 | 57 rec. | — | — | Kweku | 15 |
| IT Italy | — | 40 | 46 rec. | — | — | Kweku | 8 |
| FI Finland | — | 19△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 293K | 44 | — | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | 18 | 25 rec. | — | 12 | Kweku | 7 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English4.9K69%
- Swahili78611%
- 1873%
- Spanish1572%
- German1142%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 4,914 | 69% |
| Swahili | 786 | 11% |
| 187 | 3% | |
| Spanish | 157 | 2% |
| German | 114 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1994 | 5 |
| 2000 | 5 |
| 2001 | 5 |
| 2002 | 8 |
| 2005 | 7 |
| 2007 | 5 |
| 2008 | 6 |
| 2009 | 8 |
| 2010 | 5 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2019 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 14 years between 1987–2019. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Bankole Awoonor-Rennerb. 1898GHnot in their usual nameGhanaian politician, journalist and Pan-Africanist
- Kweku Budu-Acquahb. 1932GHGhanaian diplomat
- Dada KDb. 1968GHnot in their usual nameGhanaian highlife musician
- Kweku Adobolib. 1980GHGhanaian-born British trader who was convicted of fraud
- Isaac Kweku Bagyina AnsahGHPhD Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies
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 16 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 329 | #27,579 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 52 | #13,375 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 44 | #9,382 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #16,796 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 19 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 13 | #15,282 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12 | #109,635 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 8 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 7 | #587 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 7 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 29 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kweku?
- We estimate roughly 433 people bear Kweku (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kweku have the most bearers?
- Kweku is most frequently recorded in Ghana, where it is most often spelled kweku.
- How common is Kweku compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Kweku is the 145th most common given name of 14,190 given names recorded there.
- Is Kweku a male or female name?
- Kweku 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.
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About this data
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, “Kweku” — the 145th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.