Anya
Anya, Ania or Anja is a given name. The names are feminine in most East European countries and unisex in several African countries.
Origins and variant forms
Anya is a Russian diminutive of Anna.Ania is the spelling in Polish, which is also a diminutive of Anna.Anya in Ukrainian, which is also a diminutive of Anna and Hanna.- The spelling Anja is common in Croatian, Norwegian, Danish, German, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, Afrikaans, Slovenian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Bosnian, Serbian.Anya is sometimes used as an anglicisation of the Irish name ÁineAnya is an old Kurdish name. It means "strength" or "power".Anya is a Hungarian word for "mother".Anya is a Nigerian Igbo name, and also a word for "eye."Anya is a variant of the Sanskrit name Aanya, meaning "inexhaustible"
People with the given name Anya
- Anya Ayoung-Chee, former Miss Trinidad and Tobago and winner of season 9 of Project Runway
- Anya Chalotra, British actress
- Anya Corke, grandmaster and the top female chess player in Hong Kong
- Anya Gallaccio, Scottish artist
- Anya Garnis, Siberian ballroom and Latin dancer
- Anya Geraldine, Indonesian actress and model
- Anja Haga, Dutch politician
- Anya Hindmarch, British fashion designer
- Anya Kamenetz, American writer and journalist
- Anya Lahiri, English singer
- Anya Lawrence, British actress
- Anya Major, British athlete, actress, model and singer
- Anya Marina, American singer-songwriter
- Anya Monzikova, Russian-American model and actress
- Anya Schiffrin, American journalist and writer, international business professor at Columbia University
- Anya Seton, American author of historical romances
- Anya Shrubsole, English cricketer
- Anya Singh, Indian actress
- Anya Taranda, American model
- Anya Taylor-Joy, actress
- Anya Teixeira, Ukrainian-born British street photographer
- A'nya, Russo-Japanese talent Anna Murashige's nickname
People with the given name Anja
- Anja Althaus, German handball player
- Anja Andersen, Danish handball player
- Anja Barugh, New Zealand freestyle skier
- Anja Blacha, German mountaineer
- Anja Daems, Belgian television and radio presenter
- Anja Garbarek, Norwegian musician
- Anja Hammerseng-Edin, Norwegian handball player
- Anja Hazekamp, Dutch politician
- Anja Kampmann, German poet and novelist
- Anja Pärson, Swedish alpine skier
- Anja Plaschg, alias Soap&Skin, Austrian musician
- Anja Ringgren Lovén, Danish charity worker
- Anja Rubik, Polish fashion model
- Anja Šimpraga, Croatian politician
- Anja Sodnikar, Austrian singer-songwriter
- Anja Spasojević, Serbian professional volleyball player
- Anja Strømme, ionospheric physicist
- Anja Vanrobaeys, Belgian politician
People with the given name Ania
- Ania (singer), Polish singer and composer
- Ania Freer, Australian-Jamaican documentary filmmaker
- Ania Marson, Polish actress
- Ania Said Chaurembo, Tanzanian politician
- Ania Walwicz, Australian poet and prose writer
- Ania Wiśniewska, Polish singer
Fictional characters
- Aanya, the Queen of Duren from The Dragon Prince
- Anya, daughter of the Marvel Comics character Magneto
- Anya, or Princess Ann, a character in the film Roman Holiday
- Anya, or Princess Anastasia, protagonist of the 1997 film Anastasia
- Anya, in the video game Diablo II: Lord of Destruction
- Anya, in the video game Mouthwashing
- Anya, in the video game Project I.G.I.
- Anya, in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Anastasia "Anya" Yurievna Cocolova, in the manga series Negima! Magister Negi Magias
- Anya, in the television series The 100
- Anya Alstreim, in the anime series Code Geass
- Anya Amasova, in the film The Spy Who Loved Me
- Anya Borzakovskaya, in the graphic novel Anya's Ghost
- Anya Claus, in the film Santa Claus: The Movie
- Anya Corazon, in Marvel Comics
- Anya Forger, in the manga and anime series Spy × Family
- Anya Hepburn, in the manga series Soul Eater Not!
- Anya Jenkins, in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Anya MacPherson, in the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation
- Anya Oliwa, in the video game Wolfenstein: The New Order
- Anya Stroud, in the video game series Gears of War
- Ania Williams, in the soap opera Family Affairs
- Anya Beletskaya, in the VOCALOID song series Parties are for Losers
- Anastasia "Anya", a character in the video game ''The Idolmaster: Cinderella''
People with the surname Anya
- Ikechi Anya, Scottish footballer