Kweku

Syllable breakdown

Name meaning and origin

Origin

Nzema (Ghana)

Meaning

the Nzema and Akan day-name for a male born on Wednesday, from the system of kra din (soul names) in which every child receives a name corresponding to the day of the week on which they were born; in Akan and Nzema cosmology, each day of the week is associated with a planetary deity and a set of personality characteristics, making day-names simultaneously birth records and cosmological identifications; Wednesday-born males are associated with the spider deity Anansi in Akan tradition — the trickster-wisdom figure whose tales spread across the African diaspora to the Caribbean and Americas as Brer Rabbit and Anansi Stories — making Kweku names carry a particular association with intelligence, adaptability, and the power of narrative

Gender

male