Kwaku
Kwaku is a name with a single cultural origin: Akan.
- Akan
Meaning & Origin of Kwaku
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Kwaku is a name with a single cultural origin: Akan.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Akan
The Story of Kwaku
Kwaku first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1970, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1995: 18 births, good for #3,559 nationwide. About 27% of every Kwaku on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Kwaku last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 8 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 483 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Kwaku
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About the name Kwaku
Kwaku is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1970 and has accumulated 483 births in the dataset. Kwaku's peak popularity came in 1995 when it ranked #3,559. Use the chart and map above to compare Kwaku'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 .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.