Quaashie as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Quaashie

What is the meaning of the name Quaashie ?

The baby name Quaashie is a boy name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced KWAH-shee.

Quaashie is Akan in Origin.

Quaashie is an Anglophone spelling of the Akan male day name Kwasí, also Akwasí in Twi and Kwesi in Fante, from the Tano branch of Niger-Congo. Its literal sense is male child born on Sunday, tied to Akan Kwasiada, Sunday. The qu spelling records /kw/ in older English and Caribbean orthography; the final -shie reflects creolized or colonial attempts to render the sibilant and final vowel rather than a separate diminutive suffix.

Akan day names travelled with Gold Coast captives into the Caribbean, where Quashie and Quashee are documented in Jamaican day-name sets by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In Ghana, Kwasi and Akwasi remain the ordinary formal forms, while Quashie is more characteristic as a West Indian spelling and, later, as a surname in Ghanaian and Caribbean families. Related forms include Kwesi, Quashy, and Quash; female Sunday counterparts are Akosua and Esi.

⚙ Quaashie turns up in none of the birth registries or name datasets we cover. Most often that means a rare name, a regional or heritage one, or a recent coinage. By any reading, it's an exceptionally uncommon choice.