Akiko

Spellings & scripts●

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Akiko is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Portuguese given name16K records spelled Akiko5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, Philippines

  Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

  Also written Àkiko, Akikó

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Akiko 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 German, weibl. Vom. japanischer Herkunft (japan. aki »Herbst« + japan. ko »Kind«).

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 77 years between 1914–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Akiko Yosanob. 1878JPJapanese tanka poet (1878–1942)
• Akiko Domotob. 1932USJapanese politician
• Akiko Koyamab. 1935JPJapanese actress
• Akiko Kojimab. 1936JPJapanese model and beauty queen (born 1936)
• Akiko Wakabayashib. 1941JPJapanese actress
• Saori Yukib. 1948JPnot in their usual nameJapanese singer, talent, actress, narrator
• Akiko Wadab. 1950JPJapanese singer and talent
• Akiko Yanob. 1955JPJapanese singer-songwriter
• Akiko Monōb. 1976JPJapanese actress
• Princess Akiko of Mikasab. 1981JPJapanese princess; elder daughter of Prince and Princess Tomohito of Mikasa

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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 180 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Akiko?

We estimate roughly 4.0 thousand people bear Akiko (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Akiko have the most bearers?

Akiko is most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is most often spelled akiko.

How common is Akiko compared with other names?

In Japan, Akiko is the 28th most common given name of 355,102 given names recorded there.

Is Akiko a male or female name?

Akiko is a female 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.

What does the name Akiko mean?

Recorded meaning: ‘Bright child’; ‘child [born in] autumn’.