Kwami

Boys' name

Counterpart of Amba

Kwami has been given to 39 babies in the U.S. since 1975. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1994, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Kwami, 2020

1 in 668,000

Kwami over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kwami: meaning, origin, and history

Counterpart of Amba

Akan

What Kwami means

Kwami is a counterpart of Amba.

Origin, language, and formation

Kwami is used in Sranan Tongo. Its origins include Akan.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amba.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Sranan Tongo, Kwami is pronounced /kwami/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 39 boys were recorded with the name Kwami between 1975 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1994; its best national rank was #5,149 in 1975.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kwami?

Kwami had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020: 1 in 668,000; 5 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only: 1 in 345,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,344 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Kwami sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kwami. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kwamis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kwami was born before 1992 — so the typical Kwami is around 33 today.

Median birth year: 1992; About 33 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 46.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 25.6%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 39; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 46.2% of all recorded uses (18).

Is Kwami rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1994 (7)
Years since peak: 31; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #5,149; 1975

Spellings of Kwami

Kwami is not the most common spelling — Kai is, with 68.0% against Kwami's 0.04%.

Kai68.0%70,232
Sami5.1%5,303
Khari4.6%4,766
Kwame3.8%3,955
Rami3.8%3,886
Khai3.1%3,184
Kamil2.0%2,092
Wali1.2%1,248

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Kwami by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #5,149; 1975
Peak year: 1994; 7 that year
First recorded: 1975
Last recorded: 2020
All-time count: 39
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Kwami

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Kwali Kwanza Kwaku Kwamel Kwadwo Kwamane Kwante Shami Kwasi Kwane Kwadjo Kwang Kwaun Kwan Kwamain Dyami Kami Isami Ayobami Kwamin Kwanze Kwamae Kwamir Tami

Sibling names for Kwami

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Breonna Austin Darian Rikki Lucero Jacquelynn Salena Jessenia

For a brother

Denton Jade Trever Darion Darrius Mackenzie Daquan Dashawn

Explore around Kwami

Top names of 1994, Kwami's peak year The 1990s in full Other names that peaked in 1975 Boys' names starting with K