Day nameMasculineAI-aggregated

Kwame

/KWAH-may/

Meaning

A boy born on Saturday.

Every Akan child receives a kra din, a "soul name", from the day of the week they are born, before any other name. Kwame is the name of a Saturday-born boy, linked to the deity Amen and the qualities of the ancient, the elder.

Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president, carried this day-name; so does the memory of the day itself in every bearer.

In the same family

AmaThe Saturday-born girl.

Who carries it

🇬🇭 🇨🇮Akan (Asante, Fante and kin)

Provenance

generated: 2026-07-04
source: Model-knowledge aggregation pass (2026-07-04); unverified, awaiting community affirmation.

This entry is a hypothesis awaiting its people. If your family tells it differently, that difference is exactly what we want.

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