Tanya (name)
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| Tanya | |
| Gender: | Female |
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| Origin: | Russian, Sanskrit |
| Meaning: | Short form of Tatiana, Ancient Greek (Establisher, Decider), Latin('tatius', great) Russian (Fiery Queen), Sanskrit (Daughter) |
| Pronunciation: | /ˈtɑːnjə/ |
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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] Tanya in Sanskrit means daughter, and is a common name for girls in India. [2]
Its popularity grew in many respects thanks to Pushkin's poem Eugene Onegin, where the main character was Tatiana Larina, beloved by Onegin.
Variants include Tania, Tanja (Serbian, German, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Bosnian, Dutch, Croatian, Macedonian and Ukrainian),[1] Tanea (Romanian) or Táňa (Czech).[3]
It is the 237th most common name in the USA according to namestatistics.com, which uses US Census data.[4]
People called Tanya
Tanya
- Tanya Byron, a British psychologist, writer and media personality
- Tanya Chan, a legislator in Hong Kong
- Tanya Chua, a singer in Singapore
- Tania Coleridge, British model/Girl in Father Figure music video
- Tanya Donelly, singer/guitarist for Throwing Muses, The Breeders, and Belly
- Tanya Dubnicoff, Canadian track cyclist
- Tanya Dziahileva, Belarusian model
- Tanja Godina, Slovenian backstroke swimmer
- Tanya Haden, daughter of jazz double bassist Charlie Haden, wife of actor Jack Black
- Tanya Hansen, Norwegian pornographic actress.
- Tanya Hughes, American high jumper
- Tanya Hunks, Canadian swimmer
- Tanya James (pornographic actress), American pornographic actress
- Tanya Oxley, Barbadian track and field sprinter
- Tanya Mercado (as known as Gina Lynn), Puerto Rican pornographic actress
- Tanya Plibersek, Australian politician and Minister for Health
- Tanya Roberts, actress
- Tanya Savicheva, Russian child diarist who died in 1944 during the Siege of Leningrad
- Tanya Tate, British pornographic actress
- Tanya Tucker, American country music singer
- Tanja Tzarovska, Macedonian singer
Tanja
- Tanja Savić, Serbian singer
- Tanja Poutiainen, Finnish athlete
- Tanja Karpela, Finnish politician
- Tania Verstak, former Miss Australia
- Tanja Hart, German volleyball player
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Dictionary of First Names, Patrick Hanks & Flavia Hodges, Oxford University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-19-211651-7.
- ↑ url= http://spokensanskrit.de/index.php?tinput=tanayA&script=&direction=SE&link=yes title=Sanskrit dictionary - linking to word Tanya
- ↑ http://www.kdejsme.cz/jmeno/T%C3%A1%C5%88a/
- ↑ "Tanya". namestatistics.com. Retrieved 9 October 2010.
See also
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