Akari

Where Akari comes from

Akari hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1994
    Akari Kitō born
    Japanese voice actress and singer
  2. 1994
    Akari Kurishima born
    Japanese association football player
  3. 2002
    First appearance
    #7,643 among boys, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2025
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 2025
    Peak, #542
    554 babies named Akari — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Akari Kurishima · Japanese association football player, born 1994
  • Akari Kitō · Japanese voice actress and singer, born 1994
  • Akari Fujinami · Japanese freestyle wrestler, born 2003
  • Akari Ogata · Japanese judoka, born 1990
  • Akari Asahina · Japanese AV idol, born 1988

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.