Akihito
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Japanese emperor
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˌɑkiˈhiˌtoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Akihito is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 2.6M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 7.7M
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.6M (inferred from the name graph)
5 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Japanese emperor
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Akihito 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 5 | 1 in 7.7M | 5 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 4 | 1 in 2.6M | 4 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | — | — | 52 | Akihito | 28 |
| PE Peru | — | — | — | Akihito | 13 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Akihito | 9 |
| PY Paraguay | — | — | — | Akihito | 4 |
| SV El Salvador | — | — | — | Akihito | 3 |
| BO Bolivia | — | — | — | Akihito | 3 |
5 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Akihito 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 Latvian, Japānas imperators no 1989. g. 7. janvāra līdz 2019. g. 30. aprīlim ("Akihito", dz. 1933. g.), imperatora Hirohito dēls; labprātīgi atkāpās no amata, to nododot savam vecākajam dēlam un troņmantniekam Naruhito
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Akihitob. 1933JPEmperor of Japan from 1989 to 2019
- Akihito Kondob. 1938JPbaseball player (1938–2019)
- Akihito Maejimab. 1959JPJapanese mangaka and illustrator
- Akihito Todab. 1960JPJapanese scriptwriter and artist
- Akihito Yokoyamab. 1961JPprofessional golfer
- Akihito Tokunagab. 1971JPJapanese composer, bassist
- Akihito Yamadab. 1985JPJapanese rugby union footballer
- Akihito Kusunoseb. 1986JPJapanese association football player
- Akihito Hiroseb. 1987JPJapanese shogi player
- Akihito Yoshitomib. 2000JPJapanese manga artist
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 5 | #16,432 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #18,544 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4 | #49,520 |
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 Akihito mean, and where does it come from?
- Japanese emperor Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Akihito?
- A machine transcription gives /ˌɑkiˈhiˌtoʊ/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- Is Akihito a male or female name?
- Akihito 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 Akihito have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 5 people named Akihito, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Akihito most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Akihito is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 2.6 million people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Akihito?
- In Poland, the national register counted 5 people named Akihito in 2026, about 1 in 7.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Akihito?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/akihitoThe 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, “Akihito”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.