# Aki (name)

Aki (あき, 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, '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.

## People
### Given name

* 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 Schilz, British writer, poet and editor
* 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 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
* A.K.I., from the video game series Street Fighter
* Aki Nijou, from Maken-Ki!