Akashi
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Akashi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 897K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 2.9M
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Akashi itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- 1 in 897K (inferred from the name graph)
236 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Akashi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 236 | 1 in 897K | 236 | — | — |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Akashi | 5 |
| US United States | 115 | 1 in 2.9M | 118 | Akashi | 15 |
| IN India | 15as Akasi | 1 in 88M | 15 | Akashi | 34 |
| PL Poland | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 2 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | — |
236 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Akashi Takenorib. 1566JPsamurai
- Akashi Motojirob. 1864JPImperial Japanese Army general (1864–1919)
- Ushio Akashib. 1898JPJapanese actor
- Hajime Akashib. 1930JPJapanese seiyū
- Yasushi Akashib. 1931JPdiplomat
- Mariko Akashib. 1950JPJapanese actress
- Masanori Akashib. 1955JPJapanese essayist and translator (1955-2022)
- Masao Akashib. 1957JPJapanese record producer, music arranger and composer
- Kaori Akashib. 1982JPJapanese seiyū
- Yuki AkashiJPJapanese voice actress
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 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 236 | #32,113 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 118 | #132,259 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 115 | #144,141 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 8 | #135,301 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 7 | #117,745 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #123,743 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #302,515 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #302,788 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- In which country does Akashi have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 236 people named Akashi, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Akashi most common?
- Akashi is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 897 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Akashi?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 236 people named Akashi, about 1 in 897 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/akashiThe 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, “Akashi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.