Hideki

Hideki (ひでき, ヒデキ) is a common masculine Japanese given name.

Hideki

Hideki Matsui, a Japanese baseball player
Pronunciation	Hí-dè-kí. Can have different pronunciations depending on the language used.
Gender	Male
Language(s)	Japanese
Origin
Word/name	Japan
Meaning	It can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used.
Other names
Related names	Hideaki, Hideo

Possible writings

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

• Hideki Abe (安倍 栄基), Japanese video game composer
• Hideki Arai (新井 英樹, born 1963), Japanese manga artist
• Hideki Fujii (藤井 秀樹, born 1934), Japanese photographer
• Hideki Fujisawa (藤沢 秀樹, born 1963), also known as Dance☆Man, Japanese musician
• Hideki Hamaguchi (浜口 秀樹, born 1956), Japanese basketball player
• Hideki Imai (今井 秀樹, born 1943), Japanese information theorist and cryptographer
• Hideki Imamura (born January 29, 1972), Japanese musician, co-founder and vocalist of the band Siam Shade
• Hideki Irabu (伊良部 秀輝, 1969-2011), a Japanese professional baseball player who played in both Japan and the United States
• Hideki Ishige (石毛 秀樹, born 1994), Japanese footballer
• Hideki Isoda (磯田秀樹, born 1970), Japanese producer, director, and composer
• Hideki Kadowaki (門脇英基, born 1976), Japanese mixed martial artist
• Hideki Kamiya (神谷 英樹), Japanese video game designer
• Hideki Kita (喜多 秀喜, born 1952), retired Japanese long-distance runner
• Hideki Kojima (小島 英樹), Japanese voice actor
• Hideki Komatsu (小松英樹, born 1967), Japanese Go player
• Hideki Makihara (牧原 秀樹, born 1971), Japanese politician
• Hideki Matsui (松井 秀喜, born 1974), Japanese baseball player
• Hideki Matsutake (born 1951), Japanese electronic musician
• Hideki Matsuoka (松岡秀樹, born 1968), Japanese Go player
• Hideki Matsuyama (born 1992), Japanese golfer
• Hideki Miyazaki (宮崎 秀基, born 1962), Japanese Nordic combined skier
• Hideki Mutoh (武藤 英紀, born 1982), Japanese race car driver
• Hideki Naganuma (長沼 英樹, born 1972), Japanese video game music composer
• Hideki Nakano (中野 秀樹, born 1952), Japanese Nordic combined skier
• Hideki Nanba (難波 英樹, born 1974), Japanese rugby union player
• Hideki Niwa (丹羽 秀樹, born 1972), Japanese politician
• Hideki Noda (野田 英樹, born 1969), Japanese racing driver
• Hideki Noda (playwright) (野田 秀樹, born 1955), Japanese actor, playwright and theatre director
• Hideki Okajima (岡島 秀樹, born 1974), Japanese baseball player
• Hideki Saijo (西城 秀樹, 1955-2018), Japanese singer and television celebrity
• Hideki Shirakawa (白川 英樹, born 1936), Japanese chemist and winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Hideki Sunaga (須永 英輝, born 1985), Japanese baseball player
• Hideki Takahashi (高橋 英樹, born 1944), Japanese actor
• Hideki Tasaka (田坂 秀樹, born 1975), Japanese voice actor
• Hideki Todaka (戸高 秀樹, born 1973), Japanese boxer
• Hideki Tojo (東條 英機, 1884-1948), Japanese Prime Minister during World War II
• Hideki Yukawa (湯川 秀樹, 1907-1981), Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate
• Asanoyama Hideki (朝乃山 英樹, born 1994), Japanese sumo wrestler

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?