Kwasi
Kwasi is an Akan day name given in Ghana to a boy born on a Sunday (Kwasiada). Notable people with this name include:Kwasi Sintim Aboagye, Ghanaian teacher, businessman and politician of the 1950s and 1960s Kwasi Kwarfo Adarkwa, Ghanaian academic, Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology 2006–2010 Kwasi Boateng Adjei, Ghanaian politician Kwasi Ameyaw-Cheremeh,…
- Akan
Meaning & Origin of Kwasi
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Kwasi is an Akan day name given in Ghana to a boy born on a Sunday (Kwasiada). Notable people with this name include:Kwasi Sintim Aboagye, Ghanaian teacher, businessman and politician of the 1950s and 1960s Kwasi Kwarfo Adarkwa, Ghanaian academic, Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology 2006–2010 Kwasi Boateng Adjei, Ghanaian politician Kwasi Ameyaw-Cheremeh,…
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Akan
The Story of Kwasi
The earliest SSA record of Kwasi as a baby boy name dates back to 1970, when 8 babies received it. 1977 was its biggest year on record, with 37 newborns named Kwasi — #1,515 in the national rankings. About 23% of every Kwasi on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Kwasi last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 703 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Kwasi
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About the name Kwasi
Kwasi is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1970 and has accumulated 703 births in the dataset. Kwasi's peak popularity came in 1977 when it ranked #1,515. Use the chart and map above to compare Kwasi'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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