Kwamina as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Kwamina

What is the meaning of the name Kwamina ?

The baby name Kwamina is a Male name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced IPA: /kwəˈmiːnə/; respelling: kwah-MEE-nah.

Kwamina is Akan in Origin.

Kwamina is a masculine Ghanaian given name from the Akan, especially the Fante dialect, indicating a boy born on Saturday. It belongs to the Akan day-name system, where the weekday of birth confers a personal name and social identity; the Twi equivalent is Kwame, while Fante commonly uses Kwamena/Kwamina. Related or influenced forms include Kwami (Ewe) and the Anglicized Quamina found in older records. The feminine counterpart is Ama.

Documented along the Gold Coast from at least the seventeenth century in trader and missionary lists, the name traveled widely through the Atlantic world; Quamina appears among Afro-Caribbean and Guyanese communities, notably the freedom fighter Quamina of the 1823 Demerara uprising. In contemporary Ghana, Kwamina/Kwamena persists across Fante-speaking areas and among the diaspora, sometimes shortened to Kwa or Kwam. The name centers the meaning “Saturday-born,” with connotations of communal belonging within Akan cosmology.