Tanya (name)
For other uses, see Tanya (disambiguation).
| Tanya | |
| Gender: | Female |
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| Origin: | Russian |
| 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 hypocoristic of Tatiana. It is now quite commonly used as an independent given name in the English-speaking world.[1]
Its popularity grew in many respects thanks to Pushkin's poem Eugene Onegin whose main character was Tatiana Larina, beloved by Onegin.
Variants include Tania, Tanja (Serbo-Croatian, German, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Dutch, Macedonian and Ukrainian),[1] Tanea (Romanian) or Táňa (Czech).[2]
It is the 237th most common name in the USA according to namestatistics.com, which uses US Census data.[3]
People called Tanya
Tanya
- Tanya Byron, a British psychologist,
- 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
- 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 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 Tucker, American country music singer
Tanja
- Tanja Godina, Slovenian backstroke swimmer
- Tanja Hart, German volleyball player
- Tanja Karpela, Finnish politician
- Tanja Mihhailova, Russian-born Estonian singer
- Tanja Poutiainen, Finnish athlete
- Tanja Savić, Serbian singer
- Tanja Tzarovska, Macedonian singer
- Tania Verstak, former Miss Australia
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.
- ↑ http://www.kdejsme.cz/jmeno/T%C3%A1%C5%88a/
- ↑ "Tanya". namestatistics.com. Retrieved 9 October 2010.