Hikari
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- hee-KAH-ree
- Origin
- Japanese
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Hikari is a girls' name of Japanese origin, meaning “light; radiance”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Hikari mean?
Japanese: usually written 光
“light; radiance”
Is Hikari a girl's or a boy's name?
Hikari is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Hikari in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 29% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Hikari, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 19 girls. It first appears in the records in 1993.
2025 had fewer girls named Hikari than any year since 2015.
Half of all the girls named Hikari in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Hikari in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 16 | #6,928 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 16 | #6,979 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,170 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,554 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,410 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,244 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,836 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,898 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,675 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,123 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 5 | #15,777 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,254 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,801 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,509 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,552 |
Names like Hikari
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Miyori, Kyomi, Kiyomi, Sayuri, Avani, Saanvi, Akari, Yumi, Armani, Yuna, Saori, Rumi
More Japanese names
Kobe, Kaizen, Raiden, Ren, Kenzo, Ronin, Akira, Emi, Kairi, Miya, Kenji, Reo, Jiraiya, Aizen, Sora, Nami
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Hikari: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hikari, updated 20 October 2026.