Nagisa

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

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

Nagisa

Gender	Unisex
Origin
Word/name	Japanese
Meaning	many different meanings depending on the kanji used.

Possible writings

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

• 渚, "beach/shore"
• 汀, "water's edge/shore"
• 凪砂, "lull, sand"

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

People with the name

• Nagisa Abe (あべ なぎさ, born 1983), Japanese singer and actress
• 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 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 Shibuya (渋谷 凪咲; born 1996), Japanese singer, member of NMB48

Characters

• Nagisa Aoi (渚砂), the main character in the Strawberry Panic! series
• Nagisa Furukawa (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 Futari wa Pretty Cure and its sequel.
• 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

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