Pesya
Pesya or Pesia is an Eastern Ashkenazi feminine given name, a diminutive of Paulina or Polina. Ist hypocoristic/baby form is Pesele. The name gave rise to the Jewish matronymic surname Pesin.
A number of notable Jews had family members with the name Pesya, including Naftoli Trop, Mikhail Abramovich, Mikhail Goldstein, Boris Goldstein, Moshe Soloveichik, Asher Weiss, Yitzchak Meir Alter, Vilna Gaon Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, Gershon Edelstein, Yitzhak Perlstein, Sholom Rivkin, Mendele Mocher Sforim, etc.
Notable people with the name include:
- Pesya Faerman, birth name of Laura Hidalgo, Argentine actress
- Pesya Epstein, birth name of Pauline Wengeroff
- Pesya Giberman, birth name of, Russian doctor and ttranslator of medical literature
Fictional characters
- Aunt Pesya in Russian TV series ''Liquidation''