Tanya (given name)
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For other uses, see Tanya (disambiguation).
| Tanya | |
| Gender: | Female |
|---|---|
| Origin: | Russian |
| Meaning: | Short form of Tatiana pronounced TOHN-yah or TAWN-yah |
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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 include Tania (an English and Bulgarian spelling) and Tanja (German, Estonian, Finnish, Dutch, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian and Serbian).[1]
It is the 237th most common name in the USA according to namestatistics.com, which uses US Census data.
[edit] People called Tanya
- Tanya Chua - a singer in Singapore
- Tanya Donelly - singer/guitarist for Throwing Muses, The Breeders, and Belly
- Tanya Dubnicoff - a Canadian track cyclist
- Tanya Dziahileva, a Belarusian model
- Tanya Haden - daughter of jazz double bassist Charlie Haden, wife of actor Jack Black
- Tanya Hughes - American high jumper
- Tanya Kemppainen - the former singer for the band Lullacry
- Tanya Roberts - actress
- Tanya Savicheva - Russian child diarist who died in 1944 during the Siege of Leningrad
- Tanya Tucker - an American country music singer
- Tanja Tzarovska - Macedonian singer
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[edit] Notes and references
- ^ a b A Dictionary of First Names, Patrick Hanks & Flavia Hodges, Oxford University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-19-211651-7.
