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Anya

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Gender
  
Female

See also
  
Hannah, Anna, Áine

Language(s)
  
Hebrew, Sanskrit,Russian

Meaning
  
"Graceful", "Inexhaustible"

Anya is a feminine given name. It is also found as a surname.

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Origins and variant forms

  • Anya (Аня) is a Russian diminutive of Anna, derived from Hannah which means "gracious" or "bringing goodness" in the original Hebrew language.
  • Ania is the spelling in Polish, which is also a diminutive of Anna.
  • The spelling Anja is common in Croatian, Norwegian, Danish, German, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, Slovenian, Macedonian and Serbian.
  • Áine is the Irish spelling of the name.
  • Anya in Sanskrit is either a word meaning "inexhaustibility" or a pronoun meaning "other" or "another person" (it also has this meaning in Hindi).
  • Aanya is a common spelling of this name in India.
  • Anya in Hungarian means mother (other forms: édesanya, anyu, anyuka, anyuci).
  • Inya along with 'mama' means mother in some sub-ethnic languages of the Luhya ethnic group of Kenya.
  • Anya means "eye" in the Igbo language of Nigeria.

    • People with the given name Anya

  • Anya Ayoung-Chee, former Miss Trinidad and Tobago and winner of season 9 of Project Runway
  • Anya Corke, Woman Grandmaster and the top female chess player in Hong Kong
  • Anya Engel-Adams, an American actress
  • Anya Gallaccio, British artist
  • Anya Garnis, Siberian Ballroom and Latin Dancer
  • Anya Hindmarch, a British fashion designer
  • Anya Kamenetz, a freelance writer
  • Anya Rozova, a fashion model, runner-up in America's Next Top Model under the name Anya Kop
  • Anya Lahiri, a British singer
  • Anya Major, an athlete, actress, model and singer
  • Anya Marina, a singer-songwriter
  • Anya Monzikova, a Russian-American model on the Deal or No Deal game show
  • Anya Schiffrin, an international business professor at Columbia University
  • Anya Seton, author of historical romances
  • Anya Taranda, an American model
  • Anya Teixeira, a street photographer

    • People with the given name Anja

  • Anja Andersen, Danish handball player
  • Anja Edin, Norwegian handball player
  • Anja Garbarek, Norwegian musician
  • Anja Hazekamp, Dutch politician
  • Anja Plaschg, alias Soap&Skin, Austrian musician
  • Anja Pärson, Swedish alpine skier
  • Anja Rubik, Polish fashion model
  • Anja Steinlechner, Austrian-American musician
  • Anja Spiegelman, Author Art Spiegelman's mom in the book Maus

    • People with the given name Ania

  • Ania (singer) (born 1981), Polish singer and composer
  • Ania Said Chaurembo (21st century), Tanzanian politician
  • Ania Walwicz (born 1951), Australian poet and prose writer
  • Ania Wiśniewska (born 1977), Polish singer

    • Fictional characters

  • Anya Alstreim, a supporting character in Code Geass.
  • Anya Amasova, a Soviet spy played by Barbara Bach in the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me.
  • Anya Claus, wife of Dudley Moore's Santa in Santa Claus: The Movie.
  • Anya Jenkins, a thousand-year-old vengeance demon played by Emma Caulfield in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
  • Anya MacPherson in Degrassi: The Next Generation.
  • Anya Stroud, the dispatch girl from the science fiction video game Gears of War
  • Ania Williams in the soap opera Family Affairs.
  • Anya, an alchemist in Diablo II: Lord of Destruction.
  • Anya, Princess Ann played by Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday.
  • Anya, daughter of the Marvel Comics character Magneto.
  • Anya (Star Trek), a guardian in the Star Trek episode "The Dauphin".
  • Anya is Princess Anastasia's name as an orphan in the theatrical release of the 1997 animated family film Anastasia produced by 20th Century Fox.
  • Anya in Negima!.
  • Ania, Iolaus's wife-to-be, played by Jill Sayre in Hercules and the Amazon Women.
  • Anya, a mission director in the game Project I.G.I.: I'm Going In and its sequel.
  • Anya Borzakovskaya, from the 2011 graphic novel Anya's Ghost.
  • The Groovy Girls doll line, by Manhattan Toy, features a doll named Anya.
  • Anya Hepburn, a wealthy meister in the DWMA. Soul Eater Not!.
  • Anya, a recurring character in the first and second season of The 100 played by Dichen Lachman.
  • Anya, a lighthouse in the game To The Moon
  • Anya Oliwa, a Polish doctor in Wolfenstein: The New Order.

    • People with the surname Anya

  • Ikechi Anya, a professional footballer

    • References

    Anya Wikipedia
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