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My middle name is Akira. My father named me, he was a big fan of samurai movies, Akira Kurosawa. Anyways I am a girl. I know traditionally it’s male……..but I mean I like my name.
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I always thought this was a girl’s name. I stand corrected. I like it on both genders but I prefer it on boys.
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Akira Kenjou is one of the main characters from the anime "Kira Kira PreCure À La Mode". Her alter ego is Cure Chocolat.
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Akira Toriyama passed away on March 1st, 2024.
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Unique sounding Japanese male name that means Bright and Clear and Ideal etc. It's also a unisex name BUT more commonly used by male than female in Japan.
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Akira Morishita (森下 晃, Morishita Akira) is a Filipino-Japanese actor, singer and songwriter known for being a member and lead vocalist of the Filipino boy group BGYO. Morishita has co-written several tracks released by BGYO: "The Light" (2021), "Runnin'" (2021), "The Baddest" (2021), "Kundiman" (2021), "Fly Away" (2021) and an original soundtrack for a series Bola Bola titled "Mahal Na Kita" (2022), of which he released a solo version of the song.
Prior to his music career, Morishita started as an actor known for four movies: "Sundalong Kanin (Rice Soldiers)" (2014), "Alienasyon" (2014), "Kalel, 15" (2019), "'Tol" (2019) and a television series All of Me (2015). In 2022, he made a return to acting and became part of iWantTFC's original miniseries Bola Bola.
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Prior to his music career, Morishita started as an actor known for four movies: "Sundalong Kanin (Rice Soldiers)" (2014), "Alienasyon" (2014), "Kalel, 15" (2019), "'Tol" (2019) and a television series All of Me (2015). In 2022, he made a return to acting and became part of iWantTFC's original miniseries Bola Bola.
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Akira Tozawa is a Japanese professional wrestler.
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This is one of those names that everyone agrees is totally cool.
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This name is not really popular in Japan in modern times.
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Personally I way prefer this as a male name and I really love it! I know a male character with this name and it suits him very well.
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Really cool name! It sounds so intelligent and brave. Perfect for both genders in my opinion.
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I love this name! I'm writing a story about a unisex character with this name.
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Please don't change a masculine Japanese name to a feminine name for stupid American girls. I've seen enough of Mary Sato's (girl) and Aiko Johnson's (boy) and I don't want this rotting world to return to the monkey.
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[For future reference to self] I don’t want this to be a basic American girl name either, but I’ve been involved with Japanese culture since I was seven years old even though I’m a black American. I’m studying Japanese for 12+ years now and would like this to be my name because I want a masculine sounding name. Akito and Akira.
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I have changed my mind about renaming myself this. Preserve this name for Japanese boys, not American girls.
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Not only is it popular in the USA, it is also borne by some Spanish people, though they're Hāfu.
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People, a name's ending doesn't define if it's masculine or feminine.
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Definitely way better on a boy!
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I'm surprised but glad to see this traditional Japanese name for a boy be used as a girl's name in the USA. I chose Akira as my Japanese name regardless of my gender because I knew it's a masculine name in Japan and I like girls to do that. I like unisex names.
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Please don’t turn this proud, masculine Japanese name into one for basic American girls. Please.
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Akira Yamaoka is a Japanese video game music composer, sound designer, guitarist, and producer.
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I hate it as a girl's name, but a boy named Akira? I like it.
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I love it as a girl's name.
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I LOAF this name! The only thing I don't like that it is Unisex, meaning it is both male and a female name. It's ok, very fine..
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I think about Akira Otoishi(音石 明) from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure when I see/hear this name.
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Akira is the name of a Wii Sports opponent Mii.
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Akira is a unisex name that sounds great. However, I don't like this name as a boy's name due to the "a" at the end. But I wouldn't mind using it for a girl. In fact, it seems to be more of a girl's name to me.
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Akira is one of my favorite Japanese girl names! It sounds so beautiful and elegant! I picture Japanese flowers when I think of this! I love this name for a girl, for a boy I don’t think it sounds that masculine at all!
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In 2018, 2 is the most common age for an American (U.S.) Akira who is registered female with the Social Security Administration. It is the 3, 633rd most common female first name for living U.S. citizens.
In 2018, 6 is the most common age for an American (U.S.) Akira who is registered male with the Social Security Administration. It is the 8, 788th most common male first name for living U.S. citizens.
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In 2018, 6 is the most common age for an American (U.S.) Akira who is registered male with the Social Security Administration. It is the 8, 788th most common male first name for living U.S. citizens.
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An example is Akira Kurusu (the Protagonist) from Persona 5.
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Akira Back, is a chef. He was given the nickname "Akira" by a family friend from Japan. Back was born and raised in Seoul, Korea. He took a serious interest in baseball at a young age and decided to move to Japan to pursue it. Back's baseball career ended shortly afterwards, when his father's business took their family to the U.S. in 1989, eventually ending up in Aspen, Colorado.
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Akira Emoto is a Japanese actor. In 1999, he won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Dr. Akagi. He also won the award for best supporting actor at the 7th Hochi Film Award for Dotonbori River and Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san.
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Akira Kibo is from San Myshuno, a world introduced in The Sims 4: City Living, is a bearer of this name.
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Akira Suzuki is a Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate (2010), who first published the Suzuki reaction, the organic reaction of an aryl- or vinyl-boronic acid with an aryl- or vinyl-halide catalyzed by a palladium(0) complex, in 1979.
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Akira Toriyama is a Japanese manga and game artist. He first achieved mainstream recognition for his highly successful manga Dr. Slump, before going on to create Dragon Ball— his best known work, and acting as a character designer for several popular video games such as the Dragon Quest series, Blue Dragon, and Chrono Trigger. Toriyama is regarded as one of the artists that changed the history of manga, as his works are highly influential and popular, particularly Dragon Ball, which many manga artists cite as a source of inspiration.
He earned the 1981 Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōnen or shōjo manga with Dr. Slump, and it went on to sell over 35 million copies in Japan. It was adapted into a successful anime series, with a second anime created in 1997, 13 years after the manga ended. His next series, Dragon Ball, would become one of the most popular and successful manga in the world. Having sold more than 240 million copies worldwide, it is the third best-selling manga of all time and is considered to be one of the main reasons for the period when manga circulation was at its highest in the mid-1980s and mid-1990s. Overseas, Dragon Ball's anime adaptations have been more successful than the manga and are credited with boosting anime's popularity in the Western world.
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He earned the 1981 Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōnen or shōjo manga with Dr. Slump, and it went on to sell over 35 million copies in Japan. It was adapted into a successful anime series, with a second anime created in 1997, 13 years after the manga ended. His next series, Dragon Ball, would become one of the most popular and successful manga in the world. Having sold more than 240 million copies worldwide, it is the third best-selling manga of all time and is considered to be one of the main reasons for the period when manga circulation was at its highest in the mid-1980s and mid-1990s. Overseas, Dragon Ball's anime adaptations have been more successful than the manga and are credited with boosting anime's popularity in the Western world.
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Akira Iwamoto is a Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher for the Hanshin Tigers in Japan's Central League. Listed at 182 centimeters, Iwamoto is a right-handed pitcher who throws mostly fastballs, the occasional slider, and forkballs as changeup. He tries to emulate Tsunemi Tsuda, a former Hiroshima Carp pitcher and reliever who went to the same high school as he did. He has been called "Tsuda the 2nd" because his 150 kph fastball is reminiscent of the late pitcher.
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Akira Nagata is a Japanese vocalist and actor currently part of the J-pop group Run&Gun. He was born in Sakai, Osaka. He was part of the casts of Musical Air Gear with his fellow band members, a voice actor for Lovely Complex, and he also portrays Seigi Ozaki in the tokusatsu franchise Kamen Rider Den-O.
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Akira Kaji is a Japanese professional footballer who last played for Fagiano Okayama FC. He is a specialist on the right-hand side of the pitch playing as a full back or a wide midfielder.
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Akira Inoue, is a Japanese keyboard player, composer and producer. He was the recipient of the 23rd Japan Record Awards arranger award. His father was the pioneering Japanese cello player 井上頼豊.
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Akira Kuramochi is a former Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher. Asuka Kuramochi, his daughter, is one of the members of female idol group AKB48.
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Akira Amano is a female Japanese manga artist known for the shōnen manga series Reborn!.
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Akira Hiramoto is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the author and artist of Prison School, which won the General Manga Category award at the 2013 Kodansha Awards, and Me and the Devil Blues, which has won The 2009 Glyph Comics Awards for the Best Reprint Publication.
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I named my daughter Yekcira pronounced Akira by most people. Although in my research I am always pointed back to the origin being Middle Eastern. Right now in my country, the spelling of my daughter's name is pronounced as E'Kira rather than Akira but the meaning is actually the same. We have also been lead to believe it also means love and joy in the Nigerian culture, although it is spelled differently.
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The name Akira was given to 259 girls born in the US in 2015.
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Popular on males in Japan.
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One of the few names that I find can truly work for either a male or a female, though I slightly prefer it on a male. It sounds strong and brave, like it was meant for someone who is going to be a leader.
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Akira Toriyama (鳥山 明, born April 5, 1955) is a Japanese manga and game artist.
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Akira is also a Scottish name meaning 'Anchor'.
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Another kanji for Akira is 輝, and it means "radiance, shine".
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Akira can also be used as 輝, and it means "bright".
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Definetly feminine! So pretty
I don't see Akira as masculine at all.
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I don't see Akira as masculine at all.
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Kogami Akira from the Lucky Channel on Lucky☆Star!
Also, this name can be written using hiragana (あきら).
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Also, this name can be written using hiragana (あきら).
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Akira is the name of the main protagonist of the Japanese BL visual novel "Togainu no Chi."
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Akira Sasaki is a Japanese alpine skier.
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Actually pronounced ah-kee-dah.
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I think this name is very pretty. I think it's more feminine than masculine and I love its meaning. Keep on shining!
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Means intelligent person.
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There is an ambient/electronic musician called Akira Kosemura, beautiful music. :)
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Akira from Monochrome Factor. ^_^
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There are numerous other kanji for Akira as well.
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The bassist's for the band GazettE's real name is Akira. He's awesome! (This name's beautiful too.)
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In the Japanese culture, a name that ends with an "A" is masculine and names ending with an "O" is feminine.
This is a lovely name or either boy or girl. It brings to mind a person who is happy-go-lucky; who can smile and make a bleak room bright and inviting. I wish this was my name. But hey, who says I can't name my kid this in the future?
For all you Akiras out there; stay bright!
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This is a lovely name or either boy or girl. It brings to mind a person who is happy-go-lucky; who can smile and make a bleak room bright and inviting. I wish this was my name. But hey, who says I can't name my kid this in the future?
For all you Akiras out there; stay bright!
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Actually, there are no feminine or masculine endings in Japanese names (except perhaps "ko", but that's tied into its meaning). The gender of a name depends on the meaning. For example, Aimi is a feminine name because it is a combination of the elements "love" and "beauty", and Katsu is a masculine name because it means "victory".
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My daughter's name is Aikira, it is pronounced eye/key/ruh. I made it up. It means "beautiful little one". Now this is the history of the name Aikira.
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Akira is the name of a character in the anime series, "Kikaider" and the drama series, "Kikaida". He's a quiet boy who is the son of an evil professor named Professor Gill.
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Sohma Akira is also a character in Takaya Natsuki's manga Fruits Basket.
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Toya Akira is one of the main characters in the popular manga and anime, Hikaru no Go.
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Of Japanese and Scottish origin, meaning 'distinct' and 'anchor' respectively.
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iFuturelist is a creepy song on DDR. Sung by Akira Yamaoka.
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The Gransazers (a fictional force entrusted with the powers of Flame, Wind, Earth and Water to guard planet Earth from alien attackers) are probably only well-known in Japan, but here goes anyway: one of the Sazers is called Akira. Being born under the sign of Gemini, he is entrusted with Wind powers (Gemini is an Air Sign).
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Well, I am a girl and my name is Kili-Akira. Akira isn't really my first name, but it is because it's a part of it. I really like my name. Lots of people think that Akira is only a girls name, but it's not. I know a few people named Akira and they are all boys. But people only say that the name is cute when they hear it in my name. But no one can ever pronounce it right. It is KEY-lee a-KEY-ra. That's why everybody calls me Kailey.
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Japanese-born Australian fashion designer Akira Oshigawa bears this name.
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Akira Ishida is a famous anime voice actor. He also voiced Tom Riddle in the Japanese version of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets".
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I have a friend named Akira but she is a girl and so this name can be used for either girl or guy.
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Akira is such a common name because there are at least a hundred ways to write it, each with a completely different meaning.
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Famous bearer is Akira Toriyama, a Japanese cartoonist. His famous works are "Dragon Ball" and "Dr. Slump".
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Also the name of a famous manga by Katsuhiro Otomo.
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It is male and female.
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The meanings "brightness" and "intelligence" are separate for this name. They use different kanji and the different kanji have different meanings for this name. It can also mean "pleasant/cheerful" or "glitter/glisten" or "morning sun" or "chapter of a book" or "shine/throw light".
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Name of famous Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa.
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Drama aside, this feels like a very classic, elegant, and strong name! I believe it’s less popular these days, but I think it’s rather timeless :)