Asuka (name)
Asuka is both a unisex Japanese given name and a Japanese surname.
Written forms
Asuka can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples:- 飛鳥, "fly, bird"
- 明日香, "tomorrow, fragrant"
- 明日花, "tomorrow, flower"
- 明日華, "tomorrow, flower/splendor"
- 亜寿花, "Asia, long life, flower"
Notable people with the given name Asuka
- Asuka (wrestler), a Japanese professional wrestler
- Asuka (wrestler, born 1998), a Japanese professional wrestler also known as Veny outside of Japan
- Princess Asuka, Japanese princess during the Asuka Period
- Asuka Cambridge, Japanese-Jamaican male track and field sprinter
- Asuka Fujita, Japanese handball player
- Asuka Fukuda, Japanese pop singer
- Asuka Hachisuka, Japanese biathlete
- Asuca Hayashi, a Japanese singer
- Asuka Hinoi, a Japanese singer who is the leader of the Hinoi Team
- Asuka Hisa, Los Angeles-based artist, educator and curator
- Asuka Katsura, author of Le Portrait de Petit Cossette manga
- Asuka Kawazu, Japanese actress, fashion model and gravure idol
- Asuka Kijima, Japanese fashion model, entertainer
- Asuka Kudo, a Japanese actor
- Asuka Kuramochi,, a Japanese idol
- Asuka Kurosawa, Japanese actress and gravure model
- Asuka Nakase, Japanese voice actress
- Asuka Nishi, Japanese voice actress
- Asuka Nomura, Japanese volleyball player
- Asuka Oda, Japanese actress, gravure idol, and tarento
- Asuka Ōgame, Japanese voice actress
- Asuka Saitō, Japanese idol, singer, actress and fashion model
- Asuka Sakai, video game musicians notable for Katamari Damacy and Soulcalibur II
- Asuka Sezaki, Japanese classical violinist
- Asuka Takahashi, Japanese badminton player
- Asuka Tanii, Japanese voice actress
- Asuka Terada, Japanese hurdler
- Asuka Tono, Japanese actress
Notable people with the surname Asuka
- Rin Asuka, a Japanese actress
- Kirara Asuka, a Japanese model and former adult video actress
- Aska (singer-songwriter), Ryo Asuka, a Japanese singer-songwriter, formerly a member of Chage and Aska
Fictional characters
With the given name Asuka
- Asuka, a character from Bakuryū Sentai Abaranger
- Asuka, a shikigami who serves the priestess Kikyo in the InuYasha series
- Asuka, in Log Horizon
- Asuka, in the Senran Kagura series
- Asuka in the game Sweet Home
- Asuka Connell, the daughter of Bisca and Alzack Connell in Fairy Tail
- Asuka Domon, a character in the manga series Inazuma Eleven
- Asuka Hirama, a minor character in Haikyū!!
- Asuka Honda in Asuka 120%
- Asuka Kasen in Grand Theft Auto III
- Asuka Kazama in Tekken series.
- Asuka Kojo, a supporting character in Little Battlers Experience W
- Asuka Langley Soryu in Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Asuka Mizunokoji in Urusei Yatsura
- Asuka Motomura in Battle Royale II
- Asuka Murase, a former girlfriend of Yoji's in Weiss Kreuz
- Asuka Ootorii in Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka
- Asuka R. Kreutz in the Guilty Gear series
- Asuka Saginomiya in Ranma ½
- Asuka Shin, Dyna's human form in the Ultra Series Ultraman Dyna
- Asuka Sugo in Cyberformula
- Asuka Tachibana in the anime s-CRY-ed
- Asuka Takizawa, a main character in the 2021 anime series Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure
- Asuka Tanaka, a character in the novel series Sound! Euphonium
- Asuka Toyama, in the anime BanG Dream!
- Asuka Tenjouin, the main female character from Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
- Asuka Kurashina, one of the main heroines from the visual novel, ''Ao no Kanata no Four Rhythm''
With the surname Asuka
- Jun Asuka from Iron Virgin Jun
- Daiki Asuka or Asuka Jr., in Saint Tail
- Kenji Asuka or Midoranger, in Himitsu Sentai Goranger
- Momoko Asuka in Ojamajo Doremi
- * Kenzo Asuka, her father
- * Minori Asuka, her mother
- Ryo Asuka in Devilman
- Ryu Asuka or Yarinin Toppa from Sekai Ninja Sen Jiraiya
- Shin Asuka in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
- Torajirou Asuka, a character from ''Digimon Universe: App Monsters''
Others
- Asuka-Fujiwara is a cluster of archaeological sites.