Narumi

Narumi
Pronunciation	Ná-rú-mí
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/Name	Japanese
Meaning	It can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used.

Narumi (鳴海) is a Japanese word for "the roaring of the sea". Narumi (なるみ, ナルミ) is also a feminine Japanese given name which can also be used as a surname.

Possible writings

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

• 鳴海, "the roaring of the sea"

as a given name

• 成美, "achieve, beauty"
• 成実, "achieve, truth"

as a surname

• 成実
• 成海
• 鳴海

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

Places

• Narumi-juku (鳴海宿), the fortieth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō
• Narumi Station (鳴海駅), a train station located in Nagoya

People

Given name

• Narumi Kakinouchi (成美, born 1962), Japanese manga artist, animator, director, and character designer
• Narumi Takahashi (成美, born 1992), Japanese pair skater
• Narumi Takahira (成美, born 1989), Japanese voice actress
• Narumi Tsunoda (なるみ, born 1962), Japanese voice actress
• Narumi Yasuda (成美, born 1966), Japanese actress

Surname

• Riko Narumi (成海, born 1992), Japanese actress and model
• Takeshi Narumi (鳴海), a Japanese novelist and scriptwriter

Characters

Given name

• Narumi (鳴海), a character from the manga and anime series Alice Academy

Surname

• Ayumu Narumi (鳴海), the main character in the manga and anime series Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning
• Kiyotaka Narumi (鳴海), the brother of Ayumu Narumi from the manga and anime series Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning
• Kiyotaka Narumi (成実), a character in the anime series Lucky Star
• Shogo Narumi (鳴海), a character in the manga series Beauty Pop
• Shizuto Narumi (成海), a minor character in the manga and anime series Yakitate!! Japan
• Yui Narumi (成実), a character in the anime series Lucky Star
• Shōhei Narumi (鳴海), a character in the video games Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army and Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon