Anya

Anya, Ania or Anja is a given name. The names are feminine in most East European countries and unisex in several African countries.

Origins and variant forms

• Anya (Аня) is a Russian diminutive of Anna.
• Ania is the spelling in Polish, which is also a diminutive of Anna.
• Anya (Anya) in Ukrainian, which is also a diminutive of Anna and Hanna.
• The spelling Anja is common in Croatian, Norwegian, Danish, German, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, Afrikaans, Slovenian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Bosnian, Serbian.
• Anya is sometimes used as an anglicisation of the Irish name Áine
• Anya is an old Kurdish name. It means "strength" or "power".
• Anya is a Hungarian word for "mother".
• Anya is a Nigerian Igbo name, and also a word for "eye."
• Anya is a variant of the Sanskrit name Aanya, meaning "inexhaustible"

People with the given name Anya

• Anya Ayoung-Chee (born 1981), former Miss Trinidad and Tobago and winner of season 9 of Project Runway
• Anya Chalotra, British actress
• Anya Corke (born 1990), grandmaster and the top female chess player in Hong Kong
• Anya Gallaccio (born 1963), Scottish artist
• Anya Garnis (born 1982), Siberian ballroom and Latin dancer
• Anya Geraldine (born 1995), Indonesian actress and model
• Anja Haga (born 1968), Dutch politician
• Anya Hindmarch (born 1968), British fashion designer
• Anya Kamenetz (born 1980), American writer and journalist
• Anya Lahiri (born 1982), English singer
• Anya Lawrence (born 2004), British actress
• Anya Major (born 1966), British athlete, actress, model and singer
• Anya Marina (born 1976), American singer-songwriter
• Anya Monzikova (born 1984), Russian-American model and actress
• Anya Schiffrin (born 1962), American journalist and writer, international business professor at Columbia University
• Anya Seton (1904–1990), American author of historical romances
• Anya Shrubsole (born 1991), English cricketer
• Anya Singh (born 1992), Indian actress
• Anya Taranda (1915–1970), American model
• Anya Taylor-Joy (born 1996), actress
• Anya Teixeira (1913–1992), Ukrainian-born British street photographer
• A'nya, Russo-Japanese talent Anna Murashige's nickname

People with the given name Anja

• Anja Althaus (born 1982), German handball player
• Anja Andersen (born 1969), Danish handball player
• Anja Barugh (born 1999), New Zealand freestyle skier
• Anja Blacha (born 1990), German mountaineer
• Anja Daems (born 1968), Belgian television and radio presenter
• Anja Garbarek (born 1970), Norwegian musician
• Anja Hammerseng-Edin (born 1983), Norwegian handball player
• Anja Hazekamp (born 1968), Dutch politician
• Anja Kampmann (born 1983), German poet and novelist
• Anja Pärson (born 1981), Swedish alpine skier
• Anja Plaschg (born 1990), alias Soap&Skin, Austrian musician
• Anja Ringgren Lovén (born 1978), Danish charity worker
• Anja Rubik (born 1983), Polish fashion model
• Anja Šimpraga (born 1987), Croatian politician
• Anja Sodnikar (born 2003), Austrian singer-songwriter
• Anja Spasojević (born 1983), Serbian professional volleyball player
• Anja Strømme, ionospheric physicist
• Anja Vanrobaeys (born 1968), Belgian politician

People with the given name Ania

• Ania (singer) (born 1981), Polish singer and composer
• Ania Freer (born 1986), Australian-Jamaican documentary filmmaker
• Ania Marson, Polish actress
• Ania Said Chaurembo, Tanzanian politician
• Ania Walwicz (1951–2020), Australian poet and prose writer
• Ania Wiśniewska (born 1977), Polish singer

Fictional characters

• Aanya, the Queen of Duren from The Dragon Prince
• Anya, daughter of the Marvel Comics character Magneto
• Anya, or Princess Ann, a character in the film Roman Holiday
• Anya, or Princess Anastasia, protagonist of the 1997 film Anastasia
• Anya, in the video game Diablo II: Lord of Destruction
• Anya, in the video game Mouthwashing
• Anya, in the video game Project I.G.I.
• Anya, in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Anastasia "Anya" Yurievna Cocolova, in the manga series Negima! Magister Negi Magias
• Anya, in the television series The 100
• Anya Alstreim, in the anime series Code Geass
• Anya Amasova, in the film The Spy Who Loved Me
• Anya Borzakovskaya, in the graphic novel Anya's Ghost
• Anya Claus, in the film Santa Claus: The Movie
• Anya Corazon, in Marvel Comics
• Anya Forger, in the manga and anime series Spy × Family
• Anya Hepburn, in the manga series Soul Eater Not!
• Anya Jenkins, in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Anya MacPherson, in the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation
• Anya Oliwa, in the video game Wolfenstein: The New Order
• Anya Stroud, in the video game series Gears of War
• Ania Williams, in the soap opera Family Affairs
• Anya Beletskaya, in the VOCALOID song series Parties are for Losers
• Anastasia "Anya", a character in the video game The Idolmaster: Cinderella

People with the surname Anya

• Ikechi Anya (born 1988), Scottish footballer

See also

• Áine (given name), an Irish given name with the same pronunciation
• Anya (disambiguation), other meanings
• Ania (disambiguation)