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From Japanese 侃 (naoshi) meaning "upright and strong", or from Japanese 尚 (naoshi) meaning "still, as always". Other combinations of kanji characters can also form this name.

Famous bearers are Naoshi Nakamura, a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team. He played his entire professional career for J1 League side Nagoya Grampus, Naoshi Fukushima, he was a Japanese physicist specializing in the near-Earth space environment. He served as Secretary General of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy from 1975 to 1983. In 1990 he was awarded the AGU's Waldo E. Smith Medal and Naoshi Komi, a Japanese manga artist. His works have debuted in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine and its affiliates. In 2008, he released Double Arts, which lasted for three tankōbon volumes. His latest work, Nisekoi, about a pair of high school students from rival gang families that are forced to be a couple, is serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump, with over two hundred chapters, and has spawned an anime series.