Nagisa

Nagisa
GenderUnisex
Origin
Word/nameJapanese
Meaningmany different meanings depending on the kanji used.

Nagisa (なぎさ, ナギサ) is a Japanese given name used by either sex and is occasionally used as a surname.

Possible writings

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

  • 渚, "beach, strand"[1]
  • 汀, "water's edge/shore"
  • 凪砂, "lull, sand"

The given name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

People with the name

  • Mayumi Nagisa (渚 まゆみ, born 1944), Japanese actress and singer
  • Nagisa Abe (あべ なぎさ, born 1983), Japanese singer and actress
  • Nagisa Aoyama (青山 なぎさ; born 1998), Japanese voice actress and singer
  • Nagisa Arakaki (新垣 渚; born 1980), Japanese professional baseball player
  • Nagisa Futami (二見 渚), Japanese voice actress
  • Nagisa Hayashi (林 なぎさ, born 1986), Japanese field hockey player
  • Nagisa Ikemoto (池本 凪沙, born 2002), Japanese swimmer
  • Nagisa Katahira (片平 なぎさ; born 1959), Japanese television actress
  • Nagisa Nozaki (野崎 渚; born 1990), Japanese professional wrestler
  • Nagisa Oshima (大島 渚; born 1932), Japanese film director
  • Nagisa Sakaguchi [ja] (坂口渚沙, born 2000), Japanese actress and YouTuber. She is a member of the female idol group LarmeR, and former member of AKB48
  • Nagisa Sakurauchi (櫻内 渚; born 1989), Japanese football player
  • Nagisa Shibuya (渋谷 凪咲; born 1996), Japanese singer and former member idol group of NMB48

Fictional Characters

Surname

  • Azuya Nagisa, a character from Clamp School Detectives
  • Kaworu Nagisa (渚 カヲル), one of the main characters in Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise
  • Maria Nagisa, a character who replacing Miss America II from Battle Fever J
  • Ouka Nagisa, a character in the video games Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation 2 and Super Robot Wars: Original Generations, as well as the animated adaptation Super Robot Wars Original Generation: The Inspector.

Other uses

  • NaGISA, an effort to catalog biodiversity of in-shore areas
  • Nagisa (harpist), a Persian harpist from the 7th century

References

  1. ^ Rose-Innes, Arthur (1977). Beginners' Dictionary of Chinese-Japanese Characters: With Common Abbreviations, Variants and Compounds (4th ed.). New York: Dover Publications. p. 277. ISBN 0-486-23467-3.
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