Aki Family History
Aki Name Meaning
Japanese: found mostly in western Japan where it is phonetically written 安芸 the name of the former province of Aki (now part of Hiroshima prefecture). In the Ryūkyū Islands the name is written 秋 meaning ‘autumn’. Some instances in America could be the result of shortening other Japanese names beginning with Aki- for example Akiyama .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022