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 Áine
- Anya 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 , 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