Hinoki
Hinoki is a girl name of Japanese origin, meaning Tree.
What Hinoki means
Tree.
Hinoki 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 Hinoki 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.
Hinoki is recorded as Japanese in origin. Browse other Japanese names.
How popular is Hinoki?
Hinoki sits outside the top 100 girl 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.
The character of Hinoki
We group Hinoki under the natural world. If that is the quality drawing you to it, the theme link below collects every other name we hold in the same group.
Themes: Nature
Names like Hinoki
These share Hinoki's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Hana — Flower, blossom.
- Haruka — Distant; spring.
- Hotaru — Firefly.
- Kaede — Maple leaf.
- Mei — Sprout; bright.
- Midori — Green.
- Sakura — Cherry blossom.
- Yuki — Snow; happiness.
- Akiba — Leaf.
- Ayaha — Leaf.
- Ayuha — Leaf.
- Azuha — Leaf.