# 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.
* 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
* 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
* 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 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 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 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