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"

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

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