Nagi Family History

Muslim: variant of Naji. Indian (Punjab): from Sanskrit nāgī ‘one with serpents’ an epithet of the god Shiva. This name is traditionally borne by a subgroup of Tank goldsmiths in Punjab.

Japanese: rare name but found in several places throughout western Japan and variously written. All seem to be taken from placenames.

A few are written with single characters: 凪 ‘calm’ 泙 ‘roar’ 梛 ‘evergreen’.

Other variants are written phonetically for example: 梛木 ‘evergreen tree’ 名木 ‘name tree’ 南木 ‘south tree’ 南祇 ‘south’ and ‘local deity’ and so forth.