Akira

Where Akira comes from

Borrowed from Japanese あきら (Akira).
— Wiktionary's entry for Akira
  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Akira through the years
  1. 1910
    Akira Kurosawa born
    Japanese filmmaker
  2. 1955
    Akira Toriyama born
    Japanese manga artist and character designer
  3. 1973
    First appearance
    #7,435 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1982
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
  5. 2008
    Peak, #707
    424 babies named Akira, the most in any year.
  6. 2019
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,145.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Japanese.
  • A female given name from Japanese (uncommon)
Namesakes
  • Akira Kurosawa · Japanese filmmaker, 1910–1998
  • Akira Toriyama · Japanese manga artist and character designer, 1955–2024
  • Akira Suzuki · Japanese chemist, born 1930
  • Akira Yoshino · Japanese engineer and researcher (1948-), known as an inventor of lithium-ion battery, born 1948
  • Akira Nishino · Japanese association football player and manager, born 1955

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.