Nagisa (なぎさ, ナギサ) is a Japanese given name used by either sex and is occasionally used as a surname.
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.
Nagisa Arakaki (渚; born 1980), Japanese professional baseball player
Nagisa Futami (渚 二見) Japanese voice actress
Nagisa Katahira (なぎさ; born 1959), Japanese television actress
Nagisa Nozaki (渚; born 1990), Japanese professional wrestler
Nagisa Oshima (渚; born 1932), Japanese film director
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 (美墨 なぎさ), protagonist of the original Pretty Cure anime
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 Hazuki (葉月 渚), a character of the anime series Free!
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
Kaworu Nagisa, a character from the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise
Azuya Nagisa, 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.
NaGISA, an effort to catalog biodiversity of in-shore areas
Nagisa (harpist), a Persian harpist from the 7th Century
