Given name
Kwesi
“born on a Saturday”·“born on a Sunday”
Kwesi is used as a given name. Interpretations include “born on a Saturday” (African) and “born on a Sunday” (African). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Interpretations include “born on a Saturday” (African) and “born on a Sunday” (African). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is African.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kwesi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 818
- 818 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1977
- 31 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,254 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +5%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,254 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 4.7% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,065 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kwesi’s family of names
In English usage, Kwesi has a related form in Kwasi. Kwesi has a related form in Kwasi. Kwesi has a related form in Kiwesee.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Kwasivariant · Akan, English
- Kwessilikely variant
- Kwaseevariant
- Kwaseyvariant
- Kwasyvariant
- Kwasievariant
- Kweseevariant
- Kweseyvariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Kwesi
- Kwesi Appiahassociation football player (born 1990)
- Kwesi Ahoomey-ZunuTogolese politicianborn 1958
- Kwesi BoakyeAmerican actorborn 1998
- Kwesi Amissah-Arthurformer Vice President of Ghana (1951-2018)
- Kwasi Amoako AttaGhanaian politician and member of Parliamentborn 1951
- Kwesi BrowneTrinidad and Tobago male track cyclistborn 1994
- Kwesi BotchweyGhanaian academic, lawyer and politician1942–2022
- Kwesi NyantakyiGhanaian bankerborn 1968
- Kwesi AbbensettsGuyanese visual artist
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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