Entry № 348 · Japanese origin

Aki Aki — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AH-kee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Autumn / bright (Japanese heritage)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Japanese)

A name that means "autumn / bright (japanese heritage)".

Aki is from the Japanese 秋 (aki — autumn) or 明 (aki — bright, light). Aki Toyosaki — Japanese voice actress (anime). Princess Aki — modern Japanese heritage naming.

Autumn / bright (Japanese).

The name in its native script.

Transliteration
Aki
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑː.ki /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aki stands.

Aki 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.

Akis before her.

Real people
Aki Kurose
Japanese-American educator + Seattle school namesake.
1920 – 1998
Aki Maeda
Japanese Battle Royale actress.
born 1985
In fiction
Aki
Japanese for autumn.

Names connected to Aki.

The number behind Aki.

3

The Communicator

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