Anya

Anya

Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Hebrew, Sanskrit
Meaning	"Graceful", "Inexhaustible"
Region of origin	Indian, Russian, Balkan, other European areas
Other names
Related names	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, Dutch, Slovenian and Serbian.
• Ania is the spelling in Polish.
• Áine is the Irish spelling of the name, pronounced Awn-ya.
• 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 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

• Anja Pärson, Swedish alpine skier
• Anja Rubik, Polish fashion model
• Anja Andersen, Danish Handball player
• Anja Garbarek, Norwegian musician
• Anja Steinlechner, Austrian-American musician
• Anja Plaschg, alias Soap&Skin, Austrian musician

People with the given name Ania

• Ania (singer) (born 1981), Polish singer and composer
• Ania Said Chaurembo (21st century), Tanzanian politician
• Ania Walwicz (born 1951), Australian poet and prose writer
• Ania Wiśniewska (born 1977), Polish singer

Fictional characters

• 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 demon from the cult television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer; she is portrayed by Emma Caulfield
• 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 name 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
• Anya Stroud, the dispatch girl from the science fiction video game Gears of War

People with the surname Anya

• Ikechi Anya, a professional footballer

See also

• Ania (disambiguation), other meanings