Hikari
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/çiːkʰɑːɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hikari is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Japanese ひかり (Hikari).
- ISIceland1 in 351K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 785K
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.2M
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 Hikari 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 351K (inferred from the name graph)
374 named Hikaru, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hikaru in US United States, TH Thailand.
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)
Borrowed from Japanese ひかり (Hikari).
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hikari 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 374as Hikaru | 1 in 889K | 306 | Hikaru | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 78 | 1 in 2.7M | 109 | — | — |
| TH Thailand | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 3M | — | Hikaru | 26 |
| ES Spain | 21 | 1 in 2.4M | 21 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 13 | 1 in 785K | 13 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 8 | 1 in 2.2M | 8 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 3as Hikaru | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
374 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Hikari 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 Finnish, swot, nerd
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Hikari Ōeb. 1963JPJapanese composer
- Hikari Ōtab. 1965JPJapanese owarai talent, television presenter and writer (1965-)
- Hikari Ishidab. 1972JPJapanese singer
- Hikari Tachibanab. 1973JPJapanese voice actress
- Hikari Kisugib. 1980JPJapanese AV idol
- Hikari Mitsushimab. 1985JPJapanese actress
- Hikari Hinob. 1986JPJapanese AV idol
- Hikari Kajiwarab. 1992JPJapanese actress
- Hikari Takagib. 1993JPJapanese association football player
- Hikari Inoueb. 1994JPJapanese seiyū
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 306 | #26,960 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 78 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 60 | #49,053 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 56 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 36 | #26,960 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 34 | #43,942 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 22 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 21 | #53,545 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 20 | #63,887 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 18 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- What does the name Hikari mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Japanese ひかり (Hikari). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Hikari?
- A machine transcription gives /çiːkʰɑːɹi/ (IPA) for Japanese.
- Is Hikari a male or female name?
- Hikari is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Hikari have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 374 people named Hikaru, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Hikari most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hikari is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 351 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hikari?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 78 people named Hikari in 2022, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Hikari?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hikariThe 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, “Hikari”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.