Nagisa

Nagisa
Gender	unisex
Origin
Word/Name	Japanese
Meaning	beach/shore

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

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

People

• Nagisa Arakaki (渚; born 1980), Japanese professional baseball player
• Nagisa Katahira (なぎさ; born 1959), Japanese television actress
• Nagisa Oshima (渚; born 1932), Japanese film director

Characters

Given name

• 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 Misumi, co-protagonist in the original Pretty Cure anime
• Nagisa Sagan (目渚), a character of the manga and anime series Loveless

Surname

• Kaworu Nagisa (渚), a character from the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise
• Nagisa Azuya (凪砂), a character from Clamp School Detectives
• Ouka Nagisa (??), a secondary antagonist in the videogames 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

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