Hideki Explained

Hideki
Pronunciation:	Hí-dè-kí. Can have different pronunciations depending on the language used.
Gender:	Male
Meaning:	It can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used.
Language:	Japanese
Origin:	Japan
Related Names:	Hideaki, Hideo

is a common masculine Japanese given name.

Written forms

Hideki can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:

• 秀樹, "excellence", "timber trees"
• 英樹, "superior", "timber trees"
• 英機, "superior", "chance"
• 秀喜, "excellence", "pleasure"
• 秀紀, "excellence", "chronicle"
• 英輝, "superior", "brightness"
• 英希, "superior", "hope"

The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People with the name

Notable people with the name include:

• , Japanese manga artist
• , Japanese sumo wrestler
• , Japanese composer
• , Japanese photographer
• , also known as Dance☆Man, Japanese musician
• , Japanese basketball player
• , Japanese professional wrestler
• , Japanese information theorist and cryptographer
• , Japanese musician, co-founder and vocalist of the band Siam Shade
• , Japanese professional baseball player who played in both Japan and the United States
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese musician
• , Japanese mixed martial artist
• , Japanese video game designer
• , Japanese professional golfer
• , Japanese musician and composer
• , retired Japanese long-distance runner
• , Japanese Go player
• , Japanese footballer and manager
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese baseball player
• , Japanese electronic musician
• , Japanese Go player
• , Japanese golfer
• , Japanese screenwriter
• , Japanese Nordic combined skier
• , Japanese manga artist
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese race car driver
• , Japanese footballer and manager
• , Japanese classical pianist
• , Japanese video game music composer
• , Japanese Nordic combined skier
• , Japanese rugby union player
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese politician
• , Japanese racing driver
• , Japanese actor, playwright and theatre director
• , Japanese racing driver
• , Japanese baseball player
• , Japanese rower
• , Japanese singer and television celebrity
• , Japanese music composer
• , Japanese-born fashion designer
• , Japanese fighter pilot officer
• , Japanese chemist and winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• , Japanese baseball player
• , Japanese professional wrestler
• , Japanese writer and anime director
• , Japanese actor
• , Japanese voice actor
• , Japanese boxer
• , Japanese composer, gagaku musician, and actor
• , Japanese Prime Minister during World War II
• , Japanese footballer
• , Japanese racing driver
• , Japanese naval officer
• , Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate

Fictional characters

• Hideki Motosuwa (本須和秀樹), a character in the manga series Chobits
• Hideki, a character in the anime series Devil Hunter Yohko
• Hideki Go, the alter ego of Ultraman Jack from the 1971 tokusatsu film The Return of Ultraman
• Ryūga Hideki (流河 旱樹), an alias for L from the manga Death Note
• Hideki Nishimura, a character in the light novel series And You Thought There Is Never a Girl Online?
• Hideki Kurohagi, the secondary antagonist of the anime miniseries Marvel Anime: Wolverine