Aki (name)

Aki 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.

Written forms in Japanese

Forms in kanji can include:

あき, hiragana
アキ, katakana
明,
燦,
昭,
秋,
彬,
爽,
晶,
暁,
彰,
晃,
亜紀,
亜希,
愛希,

In Finnish

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

People

Given name

Aki Avni, Israeli actor, entertainer and television host
Aki Berg, Finnish ice hockey player
Aki Cederberg, Finnish writer, musician and filmmaker
Aki Collins, American basketball player
Aki Deguchi, Japanese singer, known professionally as Aki
Aki Hakala, Finnish drummer of The Rasmus
Aki Hata, Japanese musician and lyricist
Aki Heikkinen, Finnish decathlete
Aki Heiskanen, Finnish footballer
Aki Higashihara, Japanese television personality, fashion model, and gravure idol
Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam, Danish-Greenlandic politician
Aki Hoshino, Japanese gravure idol
Aki Hyryläinen, Finnish footballer and coach
Aki Ichijo, Japanese basketball player
Aki Inomata, Japanese multidisciplinary contemporary artist and designer
Aki Irie, Japanese manga artist
Aki Jones, American football player
Aki Juusela, Finnish ice hockey player
Aki Kangasmäki, Finnish ice hockey player
Aki Karvonen, Finnish cross-country skier
Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish screenwriter and film director
Aki Kawamura, Japanese gravure idol
Aki Kivelä, Finnish ice hockey player
Aki Kondo, Japanese illustrator and character designer
Aki Korhonen, Finnish ice hockey player
Aki Kuroda, Japanese-French painter
Aki Kurose, American teacher and social justice activist
Aki Lahti, Finnish chess player
Aki Lahtinen, Finnish footballer
Aki Lindén, Finnish politician
Aki Linnanahde, Finnish television and radio personality
Aki Maeda, Japanese actress and singer
Aki Maeda, a member of the J-pop group MAX from 2002 to 2008
Aki Misato, Japanese singer
Aki Mitsugi, Japanese contemporary artist
Aki Mitsuhashi, Japanese field hockey player
Aki Mizusawa, Japanese actress, model, and singer
Aki Mukai, Japanese actress
Aki Momii, Japanese volleyball player
Aki Nagatomi, Japanese volleyball player
Aki Narula, Indian fashion designer, costume designer, and wardrobe stylist
Aki Nawa, Japanese bowler
Aki Ogawa, Japanese wheelchair curler
Aki Ollikainen, Finnish novelist
Aki Orr, Israeli writer and political activist
Aki Parviainen, Finnish javelin thrower
Aki Ra, Cambodian landmine disposal expert and former Khmer Rouge conscripted child soldier
Aki Rahunen, Finnish tennis player
Aki Riihilahti, Finnish footballer
Aki Roberge, Japanese-American astrophysicist
Aki Sasamoto, Japanese-American artist
Aki Sawada, Japanese figure skater
Aki Schilz, British writer, poet and editor
Aki Seitsonen, Finnish ice hockey player
Aki Seiuli, New Zealand rugby union player
Aki Shibahara, Japanese musician, member of the British indie pop band Warm Jets
Aki Shibata, Japanese volleyball player
Aki Shimazaki, Japanese-Canadian novelist and translator
Aki Shimizu, Japanese manga artist
Aki Sirkesalo, Finnish musician
Aki Sudo, Japanese ice hockey player
Aki Takahashi, Japanese pianist
Aki Takajo, Japanese singer and actress
Aki Takase, Japanese jazz pianist and composer
Aki Takayama, Japanese synchronized swimmer
Aki Takejo, Japanese actress and comedian
Aki Tammisto, Finnish sprinter
Aki Thomas, American college basketball coach
Aki Tonoike, Japanese speed skater
Aki Toyosaki, Japanese voice actress
Aki Tsuchida, Japanese ice hockey player
Aki Ulander, Finnish basketball player
Aki Uusikartano, Finnish footballer
Aki Wada, Japanese shogi player
Aki Yamada, Japanese field hockey player
Aki Yanagisawa, Japanese soprano
Aki Yashiro, Japanese singer and painter
Aki Yazawa, Japanese slalom canoeist
Aki Yli-Salomäki, Finnish composer, music critic, and music journalist

Nickname or stage name

Aki Aleong, Trinidadian-American actor, singer, songwriter and record producer
Akihiro Ienaga, Japanese football player commonly referred to as "Aki"
Akinori Iwamura, Japanese baseball player and manager referred to as "Aki" while playing in Major League Baseball
Aki Kumar, Indian-born American blues musician
Akihiko Aki Kuroda, Japanese painter
Aki Nawaz, British rapper and musician born Haq Nawaz Qureshi
Alfred Schmidt, German football player and manager
Aki (rapper), real name Aleksi Swallow, Swedish rapper with Swedish hip hop band Labyrint

Surname

Angela Aki, Japanese singer-songwriter
Bundee Aki, New Zealand-Irish rugby union player
Izumi Aki, Japanese pink film actress
Keiiti Aki, Japanese-American geophysicist and professor
Tong Kee or T. Aki, Chinese immigrant businessman in the Kingdom of Hawaii involved in the Aki opium scandal
Yoko Aki, 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, in Masamune-kun's Revenge
Aki Hayakawa, 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, 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
Aki Nijou, from Maken-Ki!
Shizuha and Minoriko Aki, sister characters in Mountain of Faith from the video game series ''Touhou Project''