Kweku
/ˈkweɪ.kuː/noun
An Akan male given name traditionally given to a boy born on Wednesday.
Did you know?Kweku is a Ghanaian spelling variant of Kwaku, one of the Akan day names that encode the weekday of a person’s birth.
Etymological Timeline
Precolonial Akan tradition
Akan
day-name system
“A naming tradition in which a child’s given name reflects the day of birth.”
Precolonial Akan
Akan
Wukuada
“Wednesday, the day associated with the Wednesday-born male name Kwaku.”
18th–19th Century
Akan
Kwaku
“A male personal name for someone born on Wednesday.”
19th–20th Century
English/Akan
Kweku
“A Ghanaian English spelling variant of Kwaku.”
Modern English
English
Kweku
“A proper name used especially among Ghanaians and the Akan diaspora for a Wednesday-born male.”