Nagisa

Nagisa
Gender	Unisex
Origin
Word/name	Japanese
Meaning	many 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

Nagisa, a character in the Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 video game
Nagisa Aoi (渚砂), the main character in the Strawberry Panic! series
Nagisa Furukawa (古河渚), the main heroine in the Clannad series
Nagisa Chiba (千葉凪沙), a character in the Code Geass anime
Nagisa Iwashiro (渚), a character in the Battle Arena Toshinden fighting game series
Nagisa Akatsuki (暁凪沙), a character in the anime series Strike the Blood
Nagisa Sagan (目渚), a character of the manga and anime series Loveless
Nagisa Misumi (美墨なぎさ), a character in the anime series Futari wa Pretty Cure and its sequel, Futari wa Pretty Cure MaX Heart
Nagisa Hazuki (葉月渚), a character of the anime series Free!
Nagisa Kanou (加納渚), the main heroine in the Fight! Iczer One
Nagisa Motomiya (本宮凪沙), one of the main characters in AKB0048
Nagisa Kisaragi (ナギサ・キサラギ), one of the main characters in Firestorm
Nagisa Momoe (百江なぎさ), a character in the anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Nagisa Shiota (潮田渚), one of the main characters in the manga series Assassination Classroom
Nagisa Shingetsu (新月渚), a character from Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls
Nagisa Daimonji, a character in the anime series Cardfight!! Vanguard
Nagisa, an Eevee named and owned by Suiren/Lana in the anime series Pokémon Sun and Moon
Nagisa Kashiwagi (柏木渚), a character in Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai
Nagisa Kirifuji (桐藤ナギサ), a character from the role-playing game Blue Archive
Nagisa Ran, a character from the rhythm game Ensemble Stars!

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

^ 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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[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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