Tomonaga
# Tomonaga

Tomonaga is both a masculine Japanese given name and a Japanese surname.

## Possible writings

Tomonaga can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples:

* 友永, "friend, eternity"
* 友長, "friend, long/leader"
* 知永, "know, eternity"
* 知長, "know, long/leader"
* 智永, "intellect, eternity"
* 智長, "intellect, long/leader"
* 共永, "together, eternity"
* 共長, "together, long/leader"
* 朋永, "companion, eternity"
* 朋長, "companion, extend"
* 朝永, "morning/dynasty, eternity"
* 朝長, "morning/dynasty, long/leader"

The name can also be written in hiragana ともなが or katakana トモナガ.

## Notable people with the given name Tomonaga

* Tomonaga Minamoto (源 朝長, 1144–1160), Japanese samurai

## Notable people with the surname Tomonaga

* Jacobo Kyushei Tomonaga (朝長 五郎兵衛, 1582–1633), Gorōbyōe Tomonaga, Japanese priest in the Dominican Order of the Catholic Church
* Natsumi Tomonaga (朝長 なつ美, born 1991), Japanese modern pentathlete
* Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (朝永 振一郎, 1906–1979), Japanese physicist
