Anya

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.
Ania is the spelling in Polish, which is also a diminutive of Anna.
The spelling Anja is common in Croatian, Norwegian, Danish, German, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, Slovenian, Macedonian and Serbian.
Áine is the Irish spelling of the name.
Anya in Sanskrit is either a word meaning "inexhaustibility" or a pronoun meaning "other" or "another person" (it also has this meaning in Hindi).
Aanya is a common spelling of this name in India.
Anya in Hungarian means mother (other forms: édesanya, anyu, anyuka, anyuci)^[relevant?].
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.

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 Engel-Adams, an American actress
Anya Gallaccio, British artist
Anya Garnis, Siberian Ballroom and Latin Dancer
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, model and singer
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

Anya Alstreim, a supporting character in Code Geass.
Anya Amasova, a Soviet spy played by Barbara Bach in the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me.
Anya Claus, wife of Dudley Moore's Santa in Santa Claus: The Movie.
Anya Jenkins, a thousand-year-old vengeance demon played by Emma Caulfield in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Anya MacPherson in Degrassi: The Next Generation.
Anya Stroud, the dispatch girl from the science fiction video game Gears of War
Ania Williams in the soap opera Family Affairs.
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 is Princess Anastasia's name as an orphan in the theatrical release of the 1997 animated family film Anastasia produced by 20th Century Fox.
Anya in Negima!.
Ania, Iolaus's wife-to-be, played by Jill Sayre in Hercules and the Amazon Women.
Anya, a mission director in the game Project I.G.I.: I'm Going In and its sequel.
Anya Borzakovskaya, from the 2011 graphic novel Anya's Ghost.
The Groovy Girls doll line, by Manhattan Toy, features a doll named Anya.
Anya Hepburn, a wealthy meister in the DWMA. Soul Eater Not!.
Anya, a recurring character in the first and second season of The 100 played by Dichen Lachman.