Azuki
Azuki is a girl name of Japanese origin, meaning Shine.
What Azuki means
Shine.
Azuki 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 Azuki 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.
Azuki is recorded as Japanese in origin. Browse other Japanese names.
How popular is Azuki?
Azuki does not currently chart in the top 100 girl names. Rankings move constantly, and names can spend decades out of the lists before returning — so this says more about the present moment than about the name itself.
The character of Azuki
The thread we file Azuki under is light and brightness — worth following if that association is what caught your attention in the first place.
Themes: Light
Names like Azuki
These share Azuki's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Akari — Light, brightness.
- 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.