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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, and also of one of the Vysya families in India. They mainly reside in Andhra Pradesh, India.

Possible writings in Japanese

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• 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.^[1]

People

Given name

Aki

Gender	Male Female / Male
Origin
Word/name	Japanese, Finnish, and Nigerian
Other names
See also	Akiko Akina Akie Akseli Aukusti Joakim

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• Aki Arimizu (有水 亮, born 1999), 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, born 1988), Japanese singer, known professionally as Aki
• Aki Hakala, Finnish drummer of The Rasmus
• Aki Hata (畑 亜貴, born 1966), Japanese musician and lyricist
• Aki Heikkinen (born 1980), Finnish decathlete
• Aki Heiskanen (born 1952), Finnish footballer
• Aki Higashihara (東原 亜希, born 1982), Japanese television personality, fashion model, and gravure idol
• Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam (born 1996), Danish-Greenlandic politician
• Aki Hoshino (ほしの あき, born 1977), 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, born 1983), 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, born 1980), 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, born 1944), 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, born 1985), Japanese actress and singer
• Aki Maeda, a member of the J-pop group MAX from 2002 to 2008
• Aki Misato (美郷 あき, born 1981), Japanese singer
• Aki Mitsugi (三津木晶, born 1987), Japanese contemporary artist
• Aki Mitsuhashi (三橋 亜記, born 1989), Japanese field hockey player
• Aki Mizusawa (水沢 アキ, born 1954), Japanese actress, model, and singer
• Aki Mukai (向井 亜紀, born 1964), Japanese actress
• Aki Momii (籾井 あき, born 2000), Japanese volleyball player
• Aki Nagatomi (永富 有紀, born 1969), Japanese volleyball player
• Aki Narula (born 1968), Indian fashion designer, costume designer, and wardrobe stylist
• Aki Nawa (名和 秋, born 1979), 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, born 1980), Japanese-American artist
• Aki Sawada (澤田 亜紀, born 1988), 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, born 1981), 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, born 1975), Japanese ice hockey player
• Aki Takahashi (高橋 アキ, born 1944), Japanese pianist
• Aki Takajo (高城 亜樹, born 1991), Japanese singer and actress
• Aki Takase (高瀬 アキ, born 1948), Japanese jazz pianist and composer
• Aki Takayama (高山亜樹, born 1970), Japanese synchronized swimmer
• Aki Takejo (あき竹城, 1947–2022), 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, born 1979), Japanese speed skater
• Aki Toyosaki (豊崎 愛生, born 1986), Japanese voice actress
• Aki Tsuchida (土田 亜希, born 1979), Japanese ice hockey player
• Aki Ulander (born 1981), Finnish basketball player
• Aki Uusikartano (born 1977), Finnish footballer
• Aki Wada (和田 あき, born 1997), Japanese shogi player
• Aki Yamada (山田 明季, born 1992), Japanese field hockey player
• Aki Yanagisawa (柳沢 亜紀), Japanese soprano
• Aki Yashiro (八代亜紀, born 1950), Japanese singer and painter
• Aki Yazawa (矢澤 亜希, born 1991), 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, born 1986), Japanese football player commonly referred to as "Aki"
• Akinori Iwamura (岩村 明憲, born 1979), 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, born 1944), 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, born 1977), Japanese singer-songwriter
• Bundee Aki (born 1990), New Zealand-Irish rugby union player
• Izumi Aki (亜希 いずみ, born 1960), Japanese pink film actress
• Keiiti Aki (安芸 敬一, 1930–2005), 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, born 1945), 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 Akiza, 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