Entry № 343 · Japanese origin

Akemi Akemi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-KEH-mee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Bright beauty"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Japanese)

A name that means "bright beauty".

Akemi (明美) combines the Japanese ake (bright, dawn) and mi (beauty) — meaning "bright beauty" or "dawn beauty."

Akemi Takada (born 1959) is the Japanese anime character designer (Urusei Yatsura, Maison Ikkoku).

Bright beauty. The Japanese anime designer.

The name in its native script.

明美
Transliteration
Akemi
Pronunciation
/ əˈkɛ.mi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Akemi stands.

Akemi does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Akemis before her.

Real people
Akemi Takada
Japanese anime character designer.
born 1959
In fiction
Akemi Homura
Character in Madoka Magica.
2011 anime

Names connected to Akemi.

The number behind Akemi.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Akemi reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.