Aki (name)

Aki (pronounced Ah-kee, /aki/, /ˈækiː/) is a surname, a given name and a nickname. Aki is a common Japanese, Finnish and Nigerian given name. Aki is also a Japanese surname.

Possible writings in Japanese

 * あき, hiragana
 * アキ, katakana
 * 明, "bright"
 * 燦, "brilliant, bright, radiance"
 * 昭, "shining"
 * 秋, "autumn"
 * 彬, "refined, gentle"
 * 爽, "refreshing, bracing, resonant, sweet"
 * 晶, "sparkle"
 * 暁, "daybreak"
 * 彰, "acknowledge"
 * 晃, "clear"
 * 亜紀, "follow, chronicle"
 * 亜希, "follow, hope"
 * 愛希, "love, hope"

In Finnish
In Finnish, Aki is a diminutive form of Joakim, which is cognate with the English Joachim.

Given name

 * Aki Arimizu (有水 亮), Japanese footballer
 * Aki Avni (born 1967), Israeli actor, entertainer and television host
 * Aki Berg (born 1977), Finnish ice hockey player
 * Aki Cederberg (born 1978), Finnish writer, musician and filmmaker
 * Aki Collins, American basketball player
 * Aki Deguchi (出口 陽), Japanese singer, known professionally as Aki
 * Aki Hakala, Finnish drummer of The Rasmus
 * Aki Hata (畑 亜貴), Japanese musician and lyricist
 * Aki Heikkinen (born 1980), Finnish decathlete
 * Aki Heiskanen (born 1952), Finnish footballer
 * Aki Higashihara (東原 亜希), Japanese television personality, fashion model, and gravure idol
 * Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam (born 1996), Danish-Greenlandic politician
 * Aki Hoshino (ほしの あき), Japanese gravure idol
 * Aki Hyryläinen (born 1968), Finnish footballer and coach
 * Aki Ichijo (born 1969), Japanese basketball player
 * Aki Inomata (あき いのまた), Japanese multidisciplinary contemporary artist and designer
 * Aki Irie (入江 亜季), Japanese manga artist
 * Aki Jones (1982–2014), American football player
 * Aki Juusela (born 1991), Finnish ice hockey player
 * Aki Kangasmäki (born 1989), Finnish ice hockey player
 * Aki Karvonen (born 1957), Finnish cross-country skier
 * Aki Kaurismäki (born 1957), Finnish screenwriter and film director
 * Aki Kawamura (川村亜紀), Japanese gravure idol
 * Aki Kivelä (born 1992), Finnish ice hockey player
 * Aki Kondo (born 1977), Japanese illustrator and character designer
 * Aki Korhonen (born 1975), Finnish ice hockey player
 * Aki Kuroda (黒田 アキ), Japanese-French painter
 * Aki Kurose (1925–1998), American teacher and social justice activist
 * Aki Lahti (1931–1998), Finnish chess player
 * Aki Lahtinen (born 1958), Finnish footballer
 * Aki Lindén (born 1952), Finnish politician
 * Aki Linnanahde, Finnish television and radio personality
 * Aki Maeda (前田亜季), Japanese actress and singer
 * Aki Maeda, a member of the J-pop group MAX from 2002 to 2008
 * Aki Misato (美郷 あき), Japanese singer
 * Aki Mitsugi (三津木晶), Japanese contemporary artist
 * Aki Mitsuhashi (三橋 亜記), Japanese field hockey player
 * Aki Mizusawa (水沢 アキ), Japanese actress, model, and singer
 * Aki Mukai (向井 亜紀), Japanese actress
 * Aki Momii (籾井 あき), Japanese volleyball player
 * Aki Nagatomi (永富 有紀), Japanese volleyball player
 * Aki Narula (born 1968), Indian fashion designer, costume designer, and wardrobe stylist
 * Aki Nawa (名和 秋), Japanese bowler
 * Aki Ogawa (born 1975), Japanese wheelchair curler
 * Aki Ollikainen (born 1973), Finnish novelist
 * Aki Orr (1931–2013), Israeli writer and political activist
 * Aki Parviainen (born 1974), Finnish javelin thrower
 * Aki Ra (born c. 1973), Cambodian landmine disposal expert and former Khmer Rouge conscripted child soldier
 * Aki Rahunen (born 1971), Finnish tennis player
 * Aki Riihilahti (born 1976), Finnish footballer
 * Aki Roberge (born c. 1973), Japanese-American astrophysicist
 * Aki Sasamoto (笹本 晃), Japanese-American artist
 * Aki Sawada (澤田 亜紀), Japanese figure skater
 * Aki Seitsonen (born 1986), Finnish ice hockey player
 * Aki Seiuli (born 1992), New Zealand rugby union player
 * Aki Shibahara, Japanese musician, member of the British indie pop band Warm Jets
 * Aki Shibata (芝田安希), Japanese volleyball player
 * Aki Shimazaki (born 1954), Japanese-Canadian novelist and translator
 * Aki Shimizu (志水 アキ), Japanese manga artist
 * Aki Sirkesalo (1962–2004), Finnish musician
 * Aki Sudo (須藤 亜貴), Japanese ice hockey player
 * Aki Takahashi (高橋 アキ), Japanese pianist
 * Aki Takajo (高城 亜樹), Japanese singer and actress
 * Aki Takase (高瀬 アキ), Japanese jazz pianist and composer
 * Aki Takayama (高山亜樹), Japanese synchronized swimmer
 * Aki Takejo (あき竹城), Japanese actress and comedian
 * Aki Tammisto (1915–1978), Finnish sprinter
 * Aki Thomas (born 1979), American college basketball coach
 * Aki Tonoike (外ノ池 亜希), Japanese speed skater
 * Aki Toyosaki (豊崎 愛生), Japanese voice actress
 * Aki Tsuchida (土田 亜希), Japanese ice hockey player
 * Aki Ulander (born 1981), Finnish basketball player
 * Aki Uusikartano (born 1977), Finnish footballer
 * Aki Wada (和田 あき), Japanese shogi player
 * Aki Yamada (山田 明季), Japanese field hockey player
 * Aki Yanagisawa (柳沢 亜紀), Japanese soprano
 * Aki Yashiro (八代亜紀), Japanese singer and painter
 * Aki Yazawa (矢澤 亜希), Japanese slalom canoeist
 * Aki Yli-Salomäki (born 1972), Finnish composer, music critic, and music journalist

Nickname or stage name

 * Aki Aleong (born 1934), American actor, singer and songwriter
 * Akihiro Ienaga (家長 昭博), Japanese football player commonly referred to as "Aki"
 * Akinori Iwamura (岩村 明憲), Japanese baseball player and manager referred to as "Aki" while playing in Major League Baseball
 * Aki Kumar (born 1980), Indian-born American blues musician
 * Akihiko Aki Kuroda (黒田 アキ), Japanese painter
 * Aki Nawaz (born 1961), British rapper and musician born Haq Nawaz Qureshi
 * Alfred Schmidt (1935–2016), German football player and manager
 * Aki (rapper), real name Aleksi Swallow, Swedish rapper with Swedish hip hop band Labyrint

Surname

 * Angela Aki (アンジェラ・アキ), Japanese singer-songwriter
 * Bundee Aki (born 1990), New Zealand-Irish rugby union player
 * Izumi Aki (亜希 いずみ), Japanese pink film actress
 * Keiiti Aki (安芸 敬一), Japanese-American geophysicist and professor
 * Tong Kee or T. Aki (died 1887), Chinese immigrant businessman in the Kingdom of Hawaii involved in the Aki opium scandal
 * Yoko Aki (阿木 燿子), Japanese songwriter, actress, novelist and essayist

Fictional and legendary characters

 * Aki the Wealthy, a 10th-century Dane in the medieval Icelandic Egil's Saga
 * Aki (James Bond), from the James Bond film You Only Live Twice played by Akiko Wakabayashi
 * Aki Adagaki (安達垣 愛姫), in Masamune-kun's Revenge
 * Aki Hayakawa (早川アキ), from the manga series Chainsaw Man
 * Akiza Izinski, or Aki Izayoi from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's
 * Aki Kimura, from Medabots
 * Aki Kino, from Inazuma Eleven
 * Aki Mikage, twin brother of Aya Mikage from Ceres: Celestial Legend
 * Aki Nikkinen, from Salatut elämät
 * Aki Ross, from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
 * Aki Shiina, protagonist of Miss Caretaker of Sunohara-sou
 * Aki Shirashi, protagonist of Usurper of the Sun, a novel by Hōsuke Nojiri
 * Aki Tomoya, protagonist of Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend
 * Aki Wasama, from Kotikatu
 * Aki Yuko, a doctor from Sky Girls
 * Aki Zeta-5 (née Aki Lutinnen), leader of the Cybernetic Consciousness faction in Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire
 * Aki, one of the seven daughters of the evil demon Aku, specifically trained to destroy Samurai Jack
 * A.K.I., from the video game series Street Fighter