Akihiro
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Shining abroad’, ‘bright scholar’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɑkihiɹoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Akihiro is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Japan.
- JPJapan
- USUnited States
- DEGermany
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘Shining abroad’, ‘bright scholar’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Akihiro Maruyamab. 1935JPJapanese singer, actor, drag queen, director, composer and author (1935–2026)
- Akihiro Iwatab. 1943JPJapanese comedian (1943-2011)
- Akihiro Ōtab. 1945JPJapanese politician
- Akihiro Kanamorib. 1948USmathematician
- Akihiro Nishimurab. 1960JPJapanese politician
- Akihiro Hinob. 1968JPPresident and CEO of Japanese video game developer Level-5
- Akihiro Kitamurab. 1979JPJapanese actor and film director
- Akie Kotabeb. 1980USnot in their usual nameJapanese-American actor, producer
- Akihiro Nishinob. 1980JPJapanese owarai talent, writer and film director (1980-)
- Akihiro Mayamab. 1988JPJapanese actor
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 22 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 333 | #27,410 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 61 | #25,567 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 46 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 46 | #70,533 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 26 | #14,422 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #21,392 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 12 | #9,083 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 11 | #9,273 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7 | #40,610 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 6 | — |
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 Akihiro mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Shining abroad’, ‘bright scholar’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Akihiro?
- A machine transcription gives /ɑkihiɹoʊ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- Is Akihiro a male or female name?
- Akihiro 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.
- In which country does Akihiro have the most bearers?
- Akihiro is most frequently recorded in Japan.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/akihiroThe 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, “Akihiro”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.