Anya

Anya
Gender	Female, male
Other names
See also	Hannah, Anna, Áine, Ana

Last updated September 21, 2025

Anya, Ania or Anja is a given name.^[1] 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 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 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

References

↑ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford paperback reference. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1. OCLC 67869278 . Retrieved 21 November 2024.

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[Hanks_2006-1] Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford paperback reference. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1. OCLC 67869278 . Retrieved 21 November 2024.

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