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Аня

Аня (Anja) is a feminine given name, probably from Serbo-Croatian, ultimately from Russian. It is used in Russian, Ukrainian, and Pannonian Rusyn.

Russian and Ukrainian and rskWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Anya.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Аня probably comes from Serbo-Croatian, and ultimately from Russian.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

In Ukrainian usage, Аня is a diminutive of Анна.

Аня’s family of names

In Ukrainian usage, Аня is a diminutive of Анна. In Russian usage, Аня has a later derivative in Anya. In Russian usage, Аня has a conventional equivalent in the Czech form Hana.

Walk Аня’s family in the name graph

АняAnjaAnâÁnjaНютаАнютаАннаAnyaHana아냐Ӓнишк

Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Around the world

Аня has relatives in 9 languages. Lines run from its Russian roots to each of them.

EnglishUkrainianRussianKoreanCebuano

Russianwhere Аня comes from · 5 names

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Dots on the border stand for languages further away. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Nicknames & forms 3

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 3

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 5

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

See also 1

Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.

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