Hideki

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

Hideki (ひでき, ヒデキ) 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:

• Hideki Arai (新井 英樹, born 1963), Japanese manga artist
• Asanoyama Hideki (朝乃山 英樹, born 1994), Japanese sumo wrestler
• Hideki Chihara (千原 英喜, born 1957), Japanese composer
• 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 Hosaka (保坂 秀樹, 1971–2021), Japanese professional wrestler
• Hideki Imai (今井 秀樹, born 1943), Japanese information theorist and cryptographer
• Hideki Imamura (今村 栄喜, born 1972), Japanese musician, co-founder and vocalist of the band Siam Shade
• Hideki Irabu (伊良部 秀輝, 1969–2011), Japanese professional baseball player who played in both Japan and the United States
• Hideki Ishige (石毛 秀樹, born 1994), Japanese footballer
• Hideki Ishima (石間 秀機, born 1944), Japanese musician
• Hideki Kadowaki (門脇 英基, born 1976), Japanese mixed martial artist
• Hideki Kamiya (神谷 英樹, born 1970), Japanese video game designer
• Hideki Kase (加瀬 秀樹, born 1959), Japanese professional golfer
• Kato Hideki (加藤 英樹, born 1962), Japanese musician and composer
• Hideki Kita (喜多 秀喜, born 1952), retired Japanese long-distance runner
• Hideki Komatsu (小松英樹, born 1967), Japanese Go player
• Hideki Maeda (前田 秀樹, born 1954), Japanese footballer and manager
• Hideki Makihara (牧原 秀樹, born 1971), Japanese politician
• Hideki Matsui (松井 秀喜, born 1974), Japanese baseball player
• Hideki Matsutake (松武 秀樹, born 1951), Japanese electronic musician
• Hideki Matsuoka (松岡 秀樹, born 1968), Japanese Go player
• Hideki Matsuyama (松山 英樹, born 1992), Japanese golfer
• Hideki Mitsui (三井 秀樹, born 1963), Japanese screenwriter
• Hideki Miyazaki (宮崎 秀基, born 1962), Japanese Nordic combined skier
• Hideki Mori (森 秀樹, born 1961), Japanese manga artist
• Hideki Murai (村井 英樹, born 1980), Japanese politician
• Hideki Mutoh (武藤 英紀, born 1982), Japanese race car driver
• Hideki Nagai (永井 秀樹, born 1971), Japanese footballer and manager
• Hideki Nagano (永野 英樹, born 1968), Japanese classical pianist
• 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 Niizuma (新妻 秀規, born 1970), 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 Okada (岡田 秀樹, born 1958), Japanese racing driver
• Hideki Okajima (岡島 秀樹, born 1974), Japanese baseball player
• Hideki Omoto (大元 英照, born 1984), Japanese rower
• Hideki Saijo (西城 秀樹, 1955–2018), Japanese singer and television celebrity
• Hideki Sakamoto (坂本 英城, born 1972), Japanese music composer
• Hideki Seo (瀬尾 英樹, born 1974), Japanese-born fashion designer
• Hideki Shingō (新郷 英城, 1911–1982), Japanese fighter pilot officer
• 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 Suzuki (鈴木 秀樹, born 1980), Japanese professional wrestler
• Hideki Tachibana (橘 秀樹), Japanese writer and anime director
• 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 Togi (東儀 秀樹, born 1959), Japanese composer, gagaku musician, and actor
• Hideki Tojo (東條 英機, 1884–1948), Japanese Prime Minister during World War II
• Hideki Uchidate (内舘 秀樹, born 1974), Japanese footballer
• Hideki Yamauchi (山内 英輝, born 1988), Japanese racing driver
• Hideki Yuasa (湯浅 秀樹, born 1964), Japanese naval officer
• Hideki Yukawa (湯川 秀樹, 1907–1981), 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