Tanya (given name)
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Tanya is the Russian pet form or hypocoristic of Tatiana. It is now quite commonly used as an independent given name in the English-speaking world [1].
Variants: Tania (an English and Bulgarian spelling); Tanja (a German spelling) [1].
Frequency: It is the 237th most common name in the USA according to namestatistics.com, which uses US Census data.
[edit] References
[1] A Dictionary of First Names, Patrick Hanks & Flavia Hodges, Oxford University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-19-211651-7.
