Aki
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Japanese: Rōmaji transcription of あき
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɑki/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aki is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 640(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 8.4K
- SESweden1 in 36K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- 1 in 640 (inferred from the name graph)
8,711 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
, 2 ‘Autumn’, ‘bright’; also short for any name beginning with Aki-.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
How Aki is read(measured from records)
Aki is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Japanese61%
Rōmaji transcription of あき
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English13%
former province, Japan
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Finnish5.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Aki in Finnish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aki counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
8,711 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Aki is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
, 2 ‘Autumn’, ‘bright’; also short for any name beginning with Aki-.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In German, weibl. Vom. japanischer Herkunft (japan. aki »Herbst«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Spanish, Otoño
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Akan, t a-o s \i a, j?^ n-, the most poisonous serpent, able to shoot through the air from one tree to another
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Aki Aleongb. 1934TTTrinidadian-American actor
- Aki Yashirob. 1950JPJapanese enka singer and painter
- Aki Kaurismäkib. 1957FIFinnish film director (born 1957)
- Aki Avnib. 1967ILIsraeli actor
- Akiko Yajimab. 1967JPnot in their usual nameJapanese voice actress
- Aki Parviainenb. 1974FIFinnish javelin thrower
- Aki Riihilahtib. 1976FIFinnish association football player and sports executive
- Aki Hoshinob. 1977JPJapanese gravure idol
- Aki Hamazib. 1983JPJapanese mangaka
- Aki Maedab. 1985JPJapanese actress and singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 58 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 9.6K | #207 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 8.7K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 725 | #11,251 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 426 | #11,251 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 280 | #4,107 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 149 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 46 | #6,052 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 44 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 33 | #72,674 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 30 | #5,814 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 26 | #3,638 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 17 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Aki?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɑki/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- Where does the name Aki come from?
- , 2 ‘Autumn’, ‘bright’; also short for any name beginning with Aki-. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What does the name Aki mean?
- In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of あき
- Is Aki a male or female name?
- Aki is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Aki?
- In the etymology graph, Kim, Jo and Quim are forms of the same name in other languages; Kimi is a recorded short or pet form; it is recorded as a short form of Joakim.
- In which country does Aki have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 8.7 thousand people named Aki, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aki.
- Where is Aki most common?
- Aki is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 640 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Aki?
- In Finland, the national register counted 8,711 people named Aki, about 1 in 640 residents.
- How common is Aki compared with other names?
- In Finland, Aki is the 177th most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/akiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aki” — the 177th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.