Anya

Aanya, 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.


 * 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."

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), British artist
 * Anya Garnis (born 1982), Siberian Ballroom and Latin dancer
 * 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 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 Spasojević (born 1983), Serbian professional volleyball player

People with the given name Ania

 * Ania (singer) (born 1981), Polish singer and composer
 * 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

 * 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 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 Magi
 * 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