Naoki
Naoki is a girl name of Japanese origin, meaning Radiance.
What Naoki means
Radiance.
Naoki 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 Naoki 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.
Naoki is recorded as Japanese in origin. Browse other Japanese names.
How popular is Naoki?
Naoki is not in the current top 100 girl names we track. In practice that means a child called Naoki is unlikely to be one of three in a classroom — the name is established and recognisable, just not in heavy circulation right now.
The character of Naoki
The thread we file Naoki under is light and brightness — worth following if that association is what caught your attention in the first place.
Themes: Light
Names like Naoki
These share Naoki's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Akari — Light, brightness.
- Himari — Facing the sun; sunflower.
- Hina — Sun, light.
- Mei — Sprout; bright.
- Azuki — Shine.
- Hotaru — Firefly.
- Okaru — Lightly.
- Akira — Bright, clear.
- Haruto — Sun flying; soaring.
- Hikaru — Light, radiance.
- Haru — Spring; sunlight.
- Haruki — Shining brightly; spring child.