Nagisa

For the Persian given name Nagisa or Nakisa, see Nakisa.

NagisaGender| Unisex

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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.

## Written forms

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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

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* Nagisa, a Persian harpist of the 7th century*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 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

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* 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 Minase is a main character in the anime series Girlfriend Girlfriend
* 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

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* 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

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* NaGISA, an effort to catalog biodiversity of in-shore areas

## References

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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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