Hideki
Hideki is a boy name of Japanese origin, meaning Precious.
What Hideki means
Precious.
Hideki sits at 6 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Hideki 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.
Hideki is recorded as Japanese in origin. Browse other Japanese names.
How popular is Hideki?
Hideki sits outside the top 100 boy names we currently track. For many parents that is the appeal: a name with genuine history behind it that has not been picked up by everyone at once.
Names like Hideki
These share Hideki's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Haruto — Sun flying; soaring.
- Hayato — Falcon person; swift.
- Hikaru — Light, radiance.
- Akira — Bright, clear.
- Daichi — Great land; great wisdom.
- Daiki — Great glory; great tree.
- Haruki — Shining brightly; spring child.
- Isamu — Courage, bravery.
- Kaito — Ocean; to soar, to fly.
- Kenji — Strong and wise.
- Kenta — Healthy, strong, big.
- Makoto — Sincerity, truth.