Akiko
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Akiko is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country, where it is the 27th most common given name. Recorded meaning: ‘Bright child’; ‘child [born in] autumn’.
- JPJapan≈1 in 495(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 103K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 46K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 270 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 495 (inferred from the name graph)
≈250,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Japan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘Bright child’; ‘child [born in] autumn’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Akiko 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | #27 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 495 | listed | Akiko | 167 |
| US United States | — | 3,224 | 1 in 103K | 3.2K | Akiko | 270 |
| BR Brazil | — | 560 | 1 in 378K | 723 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 142K | listed | Akiko | 53 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 98K | 5 | Akiko | 37 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Akiko | 25 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Akiko | 8 |
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: the japanese-names-oneill-1972 register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); the hanks-first-names-2001 register; the ca-statcan-baby-names register. 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)
Akiko is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom. japanischer Herkunft (japan. aki »Herbst« + japan. ko »Kind«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Akiko Yosanob. 1878JPJapanese tanka poet (1878–1942)
- Akiko Domotob. 1932USJapanese politician
- Akiko Koyamab. 1935JPJapanese actress
- Akiko Kojimab. 1936JPJapanese model and beauty queen (born 1936)
- Akiko Wakabayashib. 1941JPJapanese actress
- Saori Yukib. 1948JPnot in their usual nameJapanese singer, talent, actress, narrator
- Akiko Wadab. 1950JPJapanese singer and talent
- Akiko Yanob. 1955JPJapanese singer-songwriter
- Akiko Monōb. 1976JPJapanese actress
- Princess Akiko of Mikasab. 1981JPJapanese princess; elder daughter of Prince and Princess Tomohito of Mikasa
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 39 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.2K | #5,353 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 723 | #5,740 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 717 | #11,410 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 560 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 549 | #12,358 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 539 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 476 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 359 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 225 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 134 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 117 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1930 | 108 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
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
- What does the name Akiko mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Bright child’; ‘child [born in] autumn’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Akiko a male or female name?
- Akiko is a female 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.
- In which country does Akiko have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 254 thousand people named Akiko in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled akiko.
- How common is the name Akiko?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,224 people named Akiko in 2020, about 1 in 103 thousand residents.
- How common is Akiko compared with other names?
- In Japan, Akiko is the 27th most common given name of 366,905 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/akikoThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Akiko” — the 27th most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.