Akari
Akari is a girl name of Japanese origin, ranked #96 in popularity, meaning Light, brightness.
What Akari means
Light, brightness.
Akari sits at 5 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Akari comes from
Japanese given names are written in kanji, and the characters chosen carry the meaning as much as the sound does. The same pronunciation can be written several different ways, each shading the sense differently, so parents pick characters as deliberately as they pick the name itself.
Akari is recorded as Japanese in origin. Browse other Japanese names.
How popular is Akari?
Akari is ranked #96, near the outer edge of the top hundred. Names here are often on the way up or on the way down, so this is the band where a name can feel fresh and established at the same time.
The character of Akari
Akari sits in our light and brightness group. Following that theme is usually the fastest way to find the handful of other names that feel the way this one does.
Themes: Light
Names like Akari
These share Akari's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Azuki — Shine.
- Himari — Facing the sun; sunflower.
- Hina — Sun, light.
- Mei — Sprout; bright.
- Akira — Bright, clear.
- Hotaru — Firefly.
- Naoki — Radiance.
- Okaru — Lightly.
- Haruto — Sun flying; soaring.
- Hikaru — Light, radiance.
- Haru — Spring; sunlight.
- Haruki — Shining brightly; spring child.