Kwadwo
Kwadwo/Kwadjo/Kojo is an Akan masculine given name originating from the Akan people, meaning born on a Monday. As an Akan given name, with the Akans being a large ethnic group consisting of various tribes such as the Fante, Asante, Akuapem, Bono, Akyem, among others, Kwadwo/Kwadjo is sometimes written as "Kojo", Kwadwo or Kwadjo and is also used less frequently as a family name.
- Akan
Meaning & Origin of Kwadwo
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Kwadwo/Kwadjo/Kojo is an Akan masculine given name originating from the Akan people, meaning born on a Monday. As an Akan given name, with the Akans being a large ethnic group consisting of various tribes such as the Fante, Asante, Akuapem, Bono, Akyem, among others, Kwadwo/Kwadjo is sometimes written as "Kojo", Kwadwo or Kwadjo and is also used less frequently as a family name.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Akan
The Story of Kwadwo
Kwadwo first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1973, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2005: 15 births, good for #5,278 nationwide. About 30% of every Kwadwo on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Kwadwo last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 11 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 275 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Kwadwo
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About the name Kwadwo
Kwadwo is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1973 and has accumulated 275 births in the dataset. Kwadwo's peak popularity came in 2005 when it ranked #5,278. Use the chart and map above to compare Kwadwo's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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