Nami (name)

Nami is both a given name and surname.

Given name

Japanese

Nami (なみ, ナミ, 奈美, 成実, 菜美) is a Japanese feminine given name. People with this name include:

• Nami Akimoto (秋元 奈美; born 1968), Japanese manga artist
• Nami Hayakawa早川 浪 (born 1984), Japanese athlete
• Nami Iguchi (井口 奈己; born 1967), Japanese film director, screenwriter and editor
• Nami Inamori (稲森 奈見; born 1993), Japanese judoka
• Nami Kurokawa (黒河 奈美; born 1980), Japanese voice actress and singer
• Nami Matsuda (松田 ナミ; 1904–1995), Christian Japanese female physician
• Nami Matsukawa (松川 ナミ; born 1961), Japanese 1980s pink film actress and bondage and fetish model
• Nami Matsuyama (松山 奈未; born 1998), Japanese badminton player
• Nami Miyahara (宮原 永海; born 1978), Japanese voice actress and singer
• Nami Miyazaki (宮崎 奈美; born 1976), Japanese field hockey international goalkeeper

• Nami Nabekura (鍋倉 那美; born 1997), Japanese judoka
• Nami Nemoto (根本 奈美; born 1975), Japanese speed skater
• Nami Otake (大竹 七未; born 1974), Japanese former football player
• Nami Sano (佐野 菜見; 1987–2023), Japanese manga artist
• Nami Tamaki (玉置 成実; born 1988), Japanese singer
• Nami Teshima (手島 奈美; born 1974), Japanese judo wrestler
• Nami Tsukamoto (柄本 奈美; born 1979), Japanese ballet dancer and film actress
• Nami Urabe (born 1978), Japanese former professional tennis player

Other origins

It is also a given name of various other origins. People with the given name unrelated to the Japanese version include:

• Na-mi (born 1957), South Korean singer
• Nami Kartal (born 1969), Turkish wood scientist and professor
• Nami Melumad (born 1988), Israeli-Dutch film and television composer, conductor, flautist, and pianist
• Nami Mun (born 1968), Korean American novelist and short story writer
• Nami Yayak, Turkish Olympic fencer, competed in 1928
• Naminapu "Nami" Maymuru-White (born 1952), Australian artist of the Yolngu people

Surname

People with the surname Nami include:

• Ahmad Nami (1873–1962), second president of Syria
• Ahmed al-Nami (1977–2001), Saudi hijacker of United Airlines Flight 93 in 2001
• Arsi Nami (born 1984), Iranian singer
• Elham Nami (born 1986) Iranian actress
• Glen Nami, Papua New Guinean rugby league coach and former player
• Kazutsugi Nami (born 1933), Japanese businessman
• Mahfoozur Rahman Nami (1911–1963) Indian Muslim scholar, politician and an author
• Mohammad Nami, Saudi footballer
• Mohammad-Hassan Nami (born 1953), Iranian military officer
• Muhammad Mamman Nami (born 1968), Nigerian accountant, management professional, tax administrator and public officer
• Özdil Nami (born 1967) British-born Turkish Cypriot politician

Fictional characters

• Nami (One Piece), one of the protagonists in the manga series One Piece
• Nami, a character and bachelorette in the video games Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life and Harvest Moon DS
• Nami Aoi, a character from the manga series Aki Sora
• Nami Hito, a character in the manga series Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei
• Nami Kuki, a character in the manga series Jungle De Ikou!
• Nami Kusunoki, a character in the manga series Alive: The Final Evolution
• Nami Satō, a character from the visual novel Gift

See also

• Nami (disambiguation)