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Kwame: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 42 in 2025. Its best rank was #583 in 1990.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #583 in 1990; #2,962 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kwame in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,962 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1990, at #583.
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Kwame: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 42 boys in 2025. Peak: #583 in 1990 · most boys in one year: 299 (1990).
In 2025, 42 US boys were named Kwame, making it the 2,962nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 347 places from #3,309 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 36 boys named Kwame in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #583, reached in 1990. That year also had the most boys given the name: 299. For comparison, it was #3,194 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kwame in 66 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1960 with 6 babies. In all, 3,993 US babies have been given the name, 1.0% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,212 babies named Kwame.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 450 US boys were named Kwame; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 52. In 2025 that was about 1 in 40,668 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kwame ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #1,461 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 5 | #1,461 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 42 | #2,962 |
| 2024 | — | — | 36 | #3,309 |
| 2023 | — | — | 38 | #3,202 |
| 2022 | — | — | 51 | #2,637 |
| 2021 | — | — | 48 | #2,678 |
| 2020 | — | — | 52 | #2,491 |
| 2019 | — | — | 49 | #2,646 |
| 2018 | — | — | 40 | #2,976 |
| 2017 | — | — | 43 | #2,827 |
| 2016 | — | — | 51 | #2,499 |
| 2015 | — | — | 36 | #3,194 |
| 2014 | — | — | 39 | #2,960 |
| 2013 | — | — | 48 | #2,552 |
| 2012 | — | — | 52 | #2,433 |
| 2011 | — | — | 56 | #2,302 |
| 2010 | — | — | 47 | #2,611 |
| 2009 | — | — | 40 | #2,973 |
| 2008 | — | — | 65 | #2,110 |
| 2007 | — | — | 40 | #2,956 |
| 2006 | — | — | 47 | #2,562 |
| 2005 | — | — | 57 | #2,153 |
| 2004 | — | — | 62 | #1,966 |
| 2003 | — | — | 50 | #2,191 |
| 2002 | — | — | 84 | #1,503 |
| 2001 | — | — | 79 | #1,535 |
| 2000 | — | — | 54 | #1,936 |
| 1999 | — | — | 59 | #1,741 |
| 1998 | — | — | 57 | #1,782 |
| 1997 | — | — | 60 | #1,666 |
| 1996 | — | — | 84 | #1,308 |
| 1995 | — | — | 86 | #1,262 |
| 1994 | — | — | 123 | #1,003 |
| 1993 | — | — | 111 | #1,054 |
| 1992 | — | — | 129 | #948 |
| 1991 | — | — | 196 | #724 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,733 | 299 | #583 |
| 1989 | — | — | 231 | #658 |
| 1988 | — | — | 39 | #1,785 |
| 1987 | — | — | 35 | #1,851 |
| 1986 | — | — | 40 | #1,630 |
| 1985 | — | — | 38 | #1,658 |
| 1984 | — | — | 48 | #1,375 |
| 1983 | — | — | 52 | #1,286 |
| 1982 | — | — | 63 | #1,158 |
| 1981 | — | — | 52 | #1,284 |
| 1980 | — | — | 60 | #1,183 |
| 1979 | — | — | 61 | #1,163 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,561 | 43 | #1,422 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,419 | 58 | #1,152 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,047 | 61 | #1,078 |
| 1975 | — | — | 64 | #1,035 |
| 1974 | — | — | 75 | #944 |
| 1973 | — | — | 91 | #837 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,736 | 105 | #781 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,768 | 76 | #937 |
| 1970 | — | — | 44 | #1,257 |
| 1969 | — | — | 25 | #1,662 |
| 1968 | — | — | 11 | #2,671 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,124 |
| 1966 | — | — | 11 | #2,552 |
| 1965 | — | — | 13 | #2,322 |
| 1964 | — | — | 9 | #2,971 |
| 1963 | — | — | 9 | #2,965 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,845 |
| 1961 | — | — | 11 | #2,630 |
| 1960 | — | — | 6 | #3,870 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).