Anya
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Anya, Ania or Anja is a given name. The names are feminine in most East European countries and unisex in several African countries.
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- Origins and variant forms
- People with the given name Anya
- People with the given name Anja
- People with the given name Ania
- Fictional characters
- People with the surname Anya
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- References
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"
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