Entry № 4257 · Japanese origin

Hikari Hikari — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ hee-KAH-ree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Light, brightness"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Japanese)

A name that means "light, brightness".

Hikari (光) is the Japanese word for "light" or "radiance." Hikari Ōe (born 1963), the autistic composer son of Nobel laureate Kenzaburō Ōe, brought the name profound resonance.

Hikari is widely used in Japan.

Light. The Japanese radiance.

The name in its native script.

Transliteration
Hikari
Pronunciation
/ hɪˈkɑː.ri /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hikari stands.

Hikari 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.

Hikaris before her.

Real people
Hikari Ōe
Japanese composer.
born 1963
In fiction
Hikari
Common in anime and manga.

Names connected to Hikari.

The number behind Hikari.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hikari reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.