Asya (given name)
Asya is a given name with varied origins. It is a Turkish feminine given name meaning Asia. It is a Bulgarian and Russian diminutive form of the feminine given name Anastasia, meaning resurrection. It is also a form of the Arabic name Asiya, meaning 'melancholic' or 'wistful'.
People
- Asya of Diauehi, a ruler of the Kingdom of Diaokhi, a confederation of proto-Georgian tribes, who reigned around the middle of the 9th century BCE.
- Asya (singer), Turkish singer
- Asya, ring name of American bodybuilder, model and professional wrestler Christi Wolf
- Asya Abdullah, Kurdish politician, co-chairwoman of the Democratic Union Party
- Asya Alashaikh, founder and CEO of Tamkeen Company for sustainable solutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- Asya Ramazan Antar, Kurdish Women's Protection Units fighter who has become a symbol of the feminist struggle in the Rojava conflict and in the fight against ISIS, by international media.
- Asya Branch, American beauty pageant titleholder and Miss USA 2020 winner
- Asya Bussie, American basketball player
- Adi Asya Katz, Israeli rhythmic gymnast
- Asya Kolchynska, Ukrainian pathophysiologist, medical doctor, professor, and Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology
- Asya Miller, American goalball player
- Asya Pereltsvaig, Russian linguist
- Asya Rolls, Israeli, psychoneuroimmunologist and International Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and an associate professor at the Immunology and Center of Neuroscience at Technion within the Israel Institute of Technology
- Asya Saavedra, founding member of the music group Smoosh renamed Chaos Chaos
- Asya Sultanova, Azerbaijani composer
- Asia Tawfiq Wahbi, Iraqi write and social reformer
- Asya Yeutykh, goldsmith and bladesmith from the Republic of Adygea in Russia