Entry № 786 · Japanese origin

Aoi Aoi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AH-oh-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Hollyhock; blue, green"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Japanese)

A name that means "hollyhock; blue, green".

Aoi (葵, 蒼, 碧) is the Japanese word for the hollyhock flower — also for the color blue-green. The Aoi crest is the heraldic symbol of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Aoi is widely used in modern Japan.

Hollyhock. The Tokugawa crest.

The name in its native script.

Transliteration
Aoi
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑː.oʊ.iː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aoi stands.

Aoi 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.

Aois before her.

Real people
Aoi Miyazaki
Japanese actress.
born 1985
In fiction
Aoi
Common in anime and manga.

Names connected to Aoi.

The number behind Aoi.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aoi reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.