is a feminine Japanese given name.
Written forms
The kanji characters ("sparkle"), ("bright"), and ("autumn") 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 ("ko") means "child". The name can be written many different ways, and has different meanings depending on which kanji is used for "aki" (as well as the hiragana and katakana). Some variations of Akiko include:
- äºÂå¦Âå ("Asia, queen, child")
- å®Âå¸Âå ("peaceful, hope, child")
- æÂÂå ("bright, child")
- Ã¥Â
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å ("provide, child")
- ä¸Âå ("superior, above, child")
- æÂÂå ("dawn, child")
Notable people
- Princess Akiko of Mikasa (彬åÂÂ女çÂÂ), member of the Japanese Imperial Family
- , Japanese announcer and actress
- , Japanese goalball player
- , Japanese cross-country skier
- , Japanese writer
- , Japanese-American food writer and artist
- , Japanese speed skater
- , Japanese cinematographer and photographer
- , Japanese tanka poet and literary critic
- , Japanese Miss Universe Japan 2007
- , former governor of Chiba Prefecture, Japan
- , Japanese-French pianist
- Akiko Fujimoto, Japanese-born American conductor
- , Japanese curator of fashion and textile arts
- , Japanese long jumper
- , Japanese professional golfer
- , Japanese trampoline gymnast
- , Japanese RyÃ
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Âka singer
- Japanese trade unionist
- Akiko Gooden (born 1972) American former professional tennis player
- Japanese voice actress and singer
- Japanese volleyball player
- , Japanese ice hockey player
- , Japanese manga artist
- , Japanese manga artist
- , Japanese actress, television talent, and former gravure idol
- , Japanese voice actress
- , Japanese politician
- , Japanese transdisciplinary artist, editor and writer-activist
- , Japanese actress, singer, tarento, and politician
- , Japanese volleyball player
- , Japanese writer
- , Japanese rower who competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics
- , Japanese Sterling Professor
- , Japanese politician of the People's New Party, and a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet
- , Japanese field hockey player
- , Japanese artist, jewellery designer, and composer
- , Japanese voice actress
- , Japanese former synchronized swimmer
- , Japanese tennis player
- , Japanese model and actress
- , Japanese actress
- , Japanese classical scholar
- , Japanese former field hockey player
- , Japanese chemist
- , a Japanese singer, composer, arranger, and songwriter
- , voice actress and singer from Japan
- , Japanese voice actress
- , Japanese actress and the first Miss Universe to come from Asia
- , Japanese voice actress
- , Japanese actress
- , Japanese actress, announcer, model, and television personality
- , Japanese writer and researcher focusing on potpourri
- , Japanese writer and researcher focusing on potpourri
- , Japanese television personality and actress
- , Japanese engineer
- Akiko Matsuura, singer and drummer from Osaka, Japan who plays for the British bands; The Big Pink, Comanechi, and Pre
- , Japanese javelin thrower
- , Japanese badminton player
- , an actress and model from Japan
- , Japanese tennis player
- , Japanese yuri and shÃ
Âjo manga writer and artist
- , Japanese dancer and dancing teacher
- , Japanese businesswoman and the wife of Shigeo Nagashima
- , Japanese ice hockey player
- , Japanese popular expert on family therapy and a business entrepreneur
- , Japanese voice actress
- , Japanese shogi player
- , Japanese singer and actress
- , Japanese actress
- , Japanese women's footballer
- , Japanese bassist, back-up vocalist, and lyricist
- , Japanese politician
- , Japanese politician
- , Japanese film director and screenwriter
- , Japanese former professional tennis player
- , Japanese politician
- , Japanese sports shooter
- , Japanese soprano
- , Japanese athlete
- , Japanese curler and curling coach
- , Japanese actress
- , Japanese composer and singer-songwriter
- Akiko Solon (born 1994) Filipino singer and actress
- Akiko Stehrenberger (born 1978), American designer
- , Japanese football player
- , Japanese novelist
- , Japanese para-badminton player
- Akiko Sugiyama, Palauan politician
- , Japanese classical violinist
- , Japanese figure skater
- , Japanese international table tennis player
- , Japanese professional shogi player
- , Japanese female professional ten-pin bowler
- , known as Suara, Japanese singer
- Akiko Thomson (born 1974), Filipina television host, journalist and retired swimmer
- , Japanese voice actress
- , jazz keyboard musician, composer, organist, and pianist from Osaka
- , Japanese hip hop artist
- , singer and television tarento from Ikuno-ku
- , Japanese actress best known for her role as the Bond girl Aki in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice
- , an actress from Kawasaki, Japan
- , Japanese anarchist writer and activist
- , Japanese free announcer, tarento, television presenter, newscaster, and actress
- , voice actress from Kashiwazaki, Japan
- , Japanese politician
- , a Japanese singer and pop/jazz musician
- , backgammon player
- , Japanese former professional tennis player
- , Japanese poet, feminist and social reformer of late 19th-early 20th century Japan
- Akiko Yoshida (Ã¥ÂÂç° äºÂç´ÂÃ¥ÂÂ, born 1976), Japanese pop singer better known under her stagename KOKIA
- , Japanese operations researcher and a professor
- Empress ShÃ
Âshi, 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 (Marzia Bisognin)'s novel Dream House
- Akiko Hiroguchi, a girl born with fur in the 1985 Kurt Vonnegut novel Galápagos
- Akiko Minase (æ°´ç¬ ç§ÂÃ¥ÂÂ), a supporting character in the anime, visual novel, and manga series Kanon
- Akiko Narumi (é³´æµ· äºÂ樹åÂÂ), a character in the tokusatsu drama series Kamen Rider W
- Akiko Yosano, a character in Bungo Stray Dogs
- Akiko Yoshida (ãÂÂãÂÂãÂÂãÂȋ¨ã·ãÂÂ), a character in American Dad!