Quamina as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Quamina

What is the meaning of the name Quamina ?

The baby name Quamina is a Male name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced kwah-MEE-nah (IPA: /kwəˈmiːnə/).

Quamina is Akan in Origin.

Quamina is an Anglicized form of the Akan (especially Fante) male day name Kwamina/Kwamena, closely related to Kwame, all denoting a boy born on Saturday. The “Qu-” spelling reflects colonial-era attempts to render the Twi/Fante initial Kw- in English orthography. Meaning centers on the Akan day-name system, which links personal identity to the weekday of birth; the feminine counterpart for Saturday is Ama.

Carried by enslaved Akan people across the Atlantic, the name appears widely in 18th–19th-century records in the Caribbean and Guyana, with spellings such as Quamino, Quamin, and Quammany; a prominent bearer was Quamina, associated with the 1823 Demerara uprising. In Ghana today, Kwamena/Kwamina remains current in Fante communities, though Kwame is more pan-Ghanaian. Modern variants include Kwamina, Kwamena, Kwame (related), and the diaspora forms Quamino and Quamin.

⚙ Quamina is a rare name. There are only 12 recorded uses of it in our data, from 1 country.