Kwame · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Kwame.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1960

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Per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 66 recorded years as a table

Kwame, per million boys born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1960	3
1961	5
1962	3
1963	4
1964	5
1965	7
1966	6
1967	5
1968	6
1969	14
1970	24
1971	43
1972	65
1973	58
1974	48
1975	41
1976	39
1977	35
1978	26
1979	35
1980	34
1981	29
1982	35
1983	29
1984	27
1985	21
1986	22
1987	19
1988	20
1989	115
1990	146
1991	97
1992	65
1993	57
1994	64
1995	45
1996	44
1997	32
1998	30
1999	31
2000	27
2001	41
2002	43
2003	25
2004	31
2005	29
2006	23
2007	19
2008	32
2009	20
2010	24
2011	29
2012	27
2013	25
2014	20
2015	19
2016	27
2017	23
2018	22
2019	27
2020	30
2021	27
2022	29
2023	22
2024	21
2025	25

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Kwame isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2025: 42
Rank in 2025: #2,941
How rare: 1 in 40,668 boys
Since 1960: 3,955

Most popular in 1990, at 146 per million boys born.

Over the ten years to 2025 it has risen by 31% per million boys born.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.