Kwaku — #9144 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kwaku

The Social Security Administration has registered 483 babies named Kwaku between 1970 and 2024, spanning 55 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kwaku currently holds the #9144 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1995, when 18 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kwaku performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 132 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Kwaku shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 39 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Kwaku in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kwaku in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 483 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.