is a common masculine

Japanese given name in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed by a given name, in that order. Nevertheless, when a Japanese name is written in the Roman alphabet, ever since the Meiji era, the official policy has been to cater to Western expecta ...

Possible writings

Hideki can be written using different

kanji are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subse ...

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 is a Japanese language, Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with ''katakana'' as well as ''kanji''. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word ''hiragana'' literally means "flowing" or "simple" kana ("simple" ori ...

katakana is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word ''katakana'' means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived f ...

People with the name

Notable people with the name include: *

Hideki Abe is a common masculine Japanese given name. 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, "ex ...

(安倍栄基), Japanese video game composer * Hideki Arai (新井英樹, born 1963), Japanese manga artist *

Hideki Fujii was a Japanese photographer. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. . Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. Among his published works are the book ''Karada Kesho'', with make-up artist Teruko Kobayashi. He was also responsible for the cover photogr ...

(藤井秀樹, born 1934), Japanese photographer * Hideki Fujisawa (藤沢秀樹, born 1963), also known as Dance☆Man, Japanese musician *, Japanese basketball player *, Japanese professional wrestler * 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 Siam Shade (stylized as SIAM SHADE) was a five-piece Japanese rock band, formed in Tokyo in 1991. The classic line-up of Hideki on vocals, Natchin on bass, Kazuma and Daita on guitar, and Jun-ji on drums broke onto the visual kei scene alongs ...

* Hideki Irabu (伊良部秀輝, 1969-2011), a Japanese professional baseball player who played in both Japan and the United States *, 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 , nicknamed "Godzilla", is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder and designated hitter who played baseball in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and Major League Baseball (MLB). He batted left-handed and threw right-handed. Matsui pl ...

(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 *, Japanese Nordic combined skier * Hideki Murai (born 1980), Japanese politician *

Hideki Mutoh is a Japanese race car driver from Tokyo currently racing in Super GT. Career History He began karting at age 12 in 1996 and quickly moved through the ranks, becoming a part of Honda's Formula Dream Project. He moved to Europe in 1998 to ...

(武藤英紀, born 1982), Japanese race car driver *

Hideki Naganuma (born May 16, 1972) is a Japanese composer and DJ who primarily does work for video games. Naganuma is best known for his score for the game '' Jet Set Radio'' and its sequel '' Jet Set Radio Future''. Early life Naganuma started his musical ...

(長沼英樹, born 1972), Japanese video game music composer and Twitter shitposter *, Japanese Nordic combined skier *, Japanese rugby union player *

Hideki Niwa is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Kasugai, Aichi and graduate of Tamagawa University, he was elected for the first time i ...

(丹羽秀樹, born 1972), Japanese politician *

Hideki Niizuma is a Japanese politician from Komeito , formerly New Komeito and abbreviated NKP, is a conservative political party in Japan founded by lay members of the Buddhist Japanese new religious movement Soka Gakkai in 1964. Since 2012, it has ...

(born 1970), Japanese politician *, Japanese racing driver *, Japanese actor, playwright and theatre director *

Hideki Okajima is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher. Okajima pitched for the Yomiuri Giants, Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, and Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Nippon Professional Baseball, and the Boston Red Sox and Oakland At ...

(岡島秀樹, born 1974), Japanese baseball player * Hideki Saijo (西城秀樹, 1955-2018), Japanese singer and television celebrity *

Hideki Shirakawa is a Japanese chemist, engineer, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba and Zhejiang University. He is best known for his discovery of conductive polymers. He was co-recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with ...

(白川英樹, born 1936), Japanese chemist and winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry *, Japanese baseball player * Hideki Takahashi (高橋英樹, born 1944), Japanese actor *

Hideki Tasaka is a Japanese voice actor who currently works for Sigma Seven. He is best known as the voice of Reks in the original Japanese version of ''Final Fantasy XII'' and Duelo McFile in ''Vandread''. Notable voice roles Anime television *''Blood+'' - ...

(田坂秀樹, born 1975), Japanese voice actor *, Japanese boxer *

Hideki Tojo Hideki Tojo (, ', December 30, 1884 – December 23, 1948) was a Japanese politician, general of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), and convicted war criminal who served as prime minister of Japan and president of the Imperial Rule Assi ...

(東條英機, 1884-1948), Japanese Prime Minister during World War II *

Hideki Yukawa was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate for his prediction of the pi meson, or pion. Biography He was born as Hideki Ogawa in Tokyo and grew up in Kyoto with two older brothers, two older sisters, and two ...

(湯川秀樹, 1907-1981), Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate *, Japanese sumo wrestler

Fictional characters

Hideki Motosuwa This is a list of the main characters from the manga and anime series '' Chobits'' by Clamp. The series tells the story of Hideki Motosuwa, who finds an abandoned ''persocom'', or personal computer with human form, that he names Chi after the on ...

(本須和秀樹), a character in the manga series ''

Chobits is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by the Japanese manga collective Clamp. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''seinen'' manga magazine '' Weekly Young Magazine'' from September 2000 to October 2002, with its chapters collecte ...

'' * Hideki, a character in the anime series ''

Devil Hunter Yohko is a Japanese original video animation series created by Madhouse, produced by Toho, and released in North America by ADV Films as their first release. The series was first released on December 1, 1990 and ended on July 1, 1995. It is about ...

'' * 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 ''Death Note'' (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from December 2003 to May ...

'' * Hideki Nishimura, a character in the light novel series '' And You Thought There Is Never a Girl Online?'' * Hideki Alessandro De Blasiis Novikov, one of the main characters from '' The World is Truly a Beautiful Place, Captain Kiyoshi!'' {{given name Japanese masculine given names