The baby name Kweku-Ansah is a Male name , 4 syllables long and is pronounced KWEH-koo AHN-sah.
Kweku-Ansah is Akan in Origin.
The baby name Kweku-Ansah is a Male name , 4 syllables long and is pronounced KWEH-koo AHN-sah.
Kweku-Ansah is Akan in Origin.
Kweku-Ansah is an Akan (Ghanaian) compound given name combining Kweku, the Fante/Twi day name for a male born on Wednesday, with Ansah, a long-standing Akan personal and family name. Kweku corresponds to Asante Twi Kwaku and arises from the Akan day-naming system linked to Wukuada (Wednesday). Ansah appears in early records of Akwamu and Fante nobility - most notably the 17th-century ruler Ansa Sasraku - and is variously analyzed as deriving from the Twi word ansa, “before/earlier,” or as a lineage name without a transparent gloss. Together the name signals Wednesday birth and Ansah heritage.
Use is strongest among Fante and coastal Akan communities, and the hyphen reflects a modern Ghanaian style of forming double given names. Variants include Kweku Ansah (unhyphenated), Kwaku-Ansah, Kwaku Ansah; standalone forms Kweku/Kwaku and Ansah/Ansa also occur. In the diaspora, the spelling Kweku-Ansah helps preserve pronunciation: KWEH-koo AHN-sah.
We can't find Kweku-Ansah in any of the birth registries or name datasets we track. It's the kind of name that tends to be rare, regional, or newly made up. Whichever it is, scarcely anyone else carries it.
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