Hiroaki

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language 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◐

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

• Thai given name170 records spelled Hiroaki6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Thailand, United States, Japan

  Also written ฮิโรอากิ, ฮิโร่อากิ, ฮีโรอากิ, ฮโรอาก

43 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.

Notable people with this name●

• Hiroaki Aokib. 1938JPJapanese amateur wrestler and restaurateur (1938–2008)
• Hiroaki Tanabeb. 1945JPJapanese actor and seiyū (1945–2023)
• Hiroaki Nakanishib. 1946JPPresident of Hitachi (1946–2021)
• Gran Hamadab. 1950JPnot in their usual nameJapanese professional wrestler (1950-2025)
• Hiroaki Murakamib. 1956JPJapanese actor
• Hiroaki Sakuraib. 1958JPJapanese anime director
• Hiroaki Ishikawab. 1961JPJapanese voice actor
• Hiroaki Gōdab. 1965JPJapanese animator, character designer, animation director (1965-)
• Hiroaki Hiraokab. 1985JPJapanese judoka
• Hiroaki Shimauchib. 1990JPJapanese baseball player

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 · 26 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hiroaki?

We estimate roughly 467 people bear Hiroaki (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.

In which country does Hiroaki have the most bearers?

Hiroaki is most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is most often spelled hiroaki.

How common is Hiroaki compared with other names?

In Japan, Hiroaki is the 84th most common given name of 355,102 given names recorded there.

Is Hiroaki a male or female name?

Hiroaki is a male 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.