Akiko (given name)
Akiko is a feminine Japanese given name.
Written forms
The kanji characters,, and are three variations of ways to write "aki", and the character is a common suffix in female given names in Japan. In Japanese the character means "child". The name can be written many different ways, and has different meanings depending on which kanji is used for "aki". Some variations of Akiko include:- 亜妃子
- 安希子
- 明子
- 充子
- 上子
- 暁子
Notable people
- Princess Akiko of Mikasa, member of the Japanese Imperial Family
- Akiko Abe, Japanese announcer and actress
- Akiko Adachi, Japanese goalball player
- Akiko Akasaka, Japanese cross-country skier
- Akiko Akazome, Japanese writer
- Akiko Aoyagi, Japanese-American food writer and artist
- Akiko Aruga, Japanese speed skater
- Akiko Ashizawa, Japanese cinematographer and photographer
- Akiko Baba, Japanese tanka poet and literary critic
- Akiko Chubachi, Japanese Miss Universe Japan 2007
- Akiko Domoto, former governor of Chiba Prefecture, Japan
- Akiko Ebi, Japanese-French pianist
- Akiko Fujimoto, Japanese-born American conductor
- Akiko Fukai, Japanese curator of fashion and textile arts
- Akiko Fukuda, Japanese long jumper
- Akiko Fukushima, Japanese professional golfer
- Akiko Furu, Japanese trampoline gymnast
- Akiko Futaba, Japanese Ryūkōka singer
- Akiko Gono Japanese trade unionist
- Akiko Gooden American former professional tennis player
- Akiko Hasegawa Japanese voice actress and singer
- Akiko Hasegawa Japanese volleyball player
- Akiko Hatanaka, Japanese ice hockey player
- Akiko Hatsu, Japanese manga artist
- Akiko Higashimura, Japanese manga artist
- Akiko Hinagata, Japanese actress, television talent, and former gravure idol
- Akiko Hiramatsu, Japanese voice actress
- Akiko Honda, Japanese politician
- Akiko Ichikawa, Japanese transdisciplinary artist, editor and writer-activist
- Akiko Ikuina, Japanese actress, singer, tarento, and politician
- Akiko Ino, Japanese volleyball player
- Akiko Itoyama, Japanese writer
- Akiko Iwamoto, Japanese rower who competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Akiko Iwasaki, Japanese Sterling Professor
- Akiko Kamei, Japanese politician of the People's New Party, and a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet
- Akiko Kato, Japanese field hockey player
- Akiko Kawarai, Japanese artist, jewellery designer, and composer
- Akiko Kawase, Japanese voice actress
- Akiko Kawase, Japanese former synchronized swimmer
- Akiko Kijimuta, Japanese tennis player
- Akiko Kikuchi, Japanese model and actress
- Akiko Kinouchi, Japanese actress
- Akiko Kiso, Japanese classical scholar
- Akiko Kitada, Japanese former field hockey player
- Akiko Kobayashi (chemist), Japanese chemist
- Akiko Kobayashi (singer), a Japanese singer, composer, arranger, and songwriter
- Akiko Kobayashi (voice actress), voice actress and singer from Japan
- Akiko Koike, Japanese voice actress
- Akiko Kojima, Japanese actress and the first Miss Universe to come from Asia
- Akiko Kōmoto, Japanese voice actress
- Akiko Koyama, Japanese actress
- Akiko Kuji, Japanese actress, announcer, model, and television personality
- Akiko Kumai, Japanese writer and researcher focusing on potpourri
- Akiko Kurabayashi, Japanese writer and researcher focusing on potpourri
- Akiko Matsumoto, Japanese television personality and actress
- Akiko Matsuo, Japanese engineer
- Akiko Matsuura, singer and drummer from Osaka, Japan who plays for the British bands; The Big Pink, Comanechi, and Pre
- Akiko Miyajima, Japanese javelin thrower
- Akiko Miyamura, Japanese badminton player
- Akiko Monō, an actress and model from Japan
- Akiko Morigami, Japanese tennis player
- Akiko Morishima, Japanese yuri and shōjo manga writer and artist
- Motofuji Akiko, Japanese dancer and dancing teacher
- Akiko Nagashima, Japanese businesswoman and the wife of Shigeo Nagashima
- Akiko Naka, Japanese ice hockey player
- Akiko Nakagami, Japanese popular expert on family therapy and a business entrepreneur
- Akiko Nakagawa, Japanese voice actress
- Akiko Nakakura, Japanese shogi player
- Akiko Nakamura, Japanese singer and actress
- Akiko Nishina, Japanese actress
- Akiko Niwata, Japanese women's footballer
- Akiko Noma, Japanese bassist, back-up vocalist, and lyricist
- Akiko Ōishi, Japanese politician
- Akiko Okamoto, Japanese politician
- Akiko Ōku, Japanese film director and screenwriter
- Akiko Omae, Japanese former professional tennis player
- Akiko Santō, Japanese politician
- Akiko Sato, Japanese sports shooter
- Akiko Seki, Japanese soprano
- Akiko Sekine, Japanese athlete
- Akiko Sekiwa, Japanese curler and curling coach
- Akiko Shiga, Japanese actress
- Akiko Shikata, Japanese composer and singer-songwriter
- Akiko Solon Filipino singer and actress
- Akiko Stehrenberger, American designer
- Akiko Sudo, Japanese football player
- Akiko Sugimoto, Japanese novelist
- Akiko Sugino, Japanese para-badminton player
- Akiko Sugiyama, Palauan politician
- Akiko Suwanai, Japanese classical violinist
- Akiko Suzuki, Japanese figure skater
- Akiko Takeda, Japanese international table tennis player
- Akiko Takojima, Japanese professional shogi player
- Akiko Tanigawa, Japanese female professional ten-pin bowler
- Suara, known as Suara, Japanese singer
- Akiko Thomson, Filipina television host, journalist and retired swimmer
- Akiko Toda, Japanese voice actress
- Akiko Tsuruga, jazz keyboard musician, composer, organist, and pianist from Osaka
- Awich, Japanese hip hop artist
- Akiko Wada, singer and television tarento from Ikuno-ku
- Akiko Wakabayashi, Japanese actress best known for her role as the Bond girl Aki in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice
- Akiko Yada, an actress from Kawasaki, Japan
- Yagi Akiko, Japanese anarchist writer and activist
- Akiko Yagi, Japanese free announcer, tarento, television presenter, newscaster, and actress
- Akiko Yajima, voice actress from Kashiwazaki, Japan
- Akiko Yamanaka, Japanese politician
- Akiko Yano, a Japanese singer and pop/jazz musician
- Akiko Yazawa, backgammon player
- Akiko Yonemura, Japanese former professional tennis player
- Akiko Yosano, Japanese poet, feminist and social reformer of late 19th-early 20th century Japan
- Akiko Yoshida, Japanese pop singer better known under her stagename KOKIA
- Akiko Yoshise, Japanese operations researcher and a professor
- Empress Shōshi, former Empress of Japan, who was also known as Akiko
Fictional characters
- Aki, a female ninja and Japanese agent played by Akiko Wakabayashi in the 1967 James Bond film, You Only Live Twice. Wakabayashi convinced director Lewis Gilbert to change the name of her character to one closer to her own
- Akiko Bloom, a character in CutiePieMarzia 's novel Dream House
- Akiko Hiroguchi, a girl born with fur in the 1985 Kurt Vonnegut novel Galápagos
- Akiko Minase, a supporting character in the anime, visual novel, and manga series Kanon
- Akiko Narumi, a character in the tokusatsu drama series Kamen Rider W
- Akiko Yosano, a character in Bungo Stray Dogs
- Akiko Yoshida, a character in ''American Dad!''