Anya
| Anya |
| Gender |
Female |
| Language(s) |
Hebrew, Sanskrit |
| Origin |
| Meaning |
"Graceful", "Inexhaustible" |
| Other names |
| See also |
Hannah, Anna, Áine |
Anya is a feminine given name. It is also found as a surname.
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.
- The spelling Anja is common in Norwegian, Danish, German, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, Slovenian, Macedonian and Serbian.
- Ania is the spelling in Polish.
- Áine is the Irish spelling of the name, pronounced Awn-iya.
- Anya in Sanskrit is either a word meaning "inexhaustibleness" or a pronoun meaning "other" or "another person".
- 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 Gallaccio, British artist
- 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 and model
- 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
People with the given name Ania
Fictional characters
- Anya, a mission director in the game Project IGI 1: I'm Going In & Project I.G.I.-2: Covert Strike, developed by Innerloop Studios
- Anya (musical), a 1965 Broadway musical
- "Anya", a song by Deep Purple from their 1993 album The Battle Rages On
- Anya Amasova, a Soviet spy played by Barbara Bach in the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me
- Anya Jenkins, a thousand-year-old vengeance played by Emma Caulfield in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- 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, Princess Anastasia's alias as an orphan in the 1997 animated film Anastasia
- Anya MacPherson in Degrassi: The Next Generation
- Anya in Negima!
- Anya Alstreim, a supporting character in Code Geass
- Ania Williams in the soap opera Family Affairs
- Ania, Iolaus's wife-to-be, played by Jill Sayre in Hercules and the Amazon Women
- Anya Claus, wife of Dudley Moore's Santa in Santa Claus: The Movie
- Anya Stroud, the dispatch girl from the science fiction video game Gears of War
People with the surname Anya
Other uses
- Anya, alternative name of Ara Gaya, former kingdom in Korea
See also