Given name · Bulgarian · Russian
Ваня
“Yahweh has been gracious”
Ваня (Vánja) is a masculine given name. It is used in Russian.
Bulgarian and RussianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Vanâ.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ваня goes back to Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης, meaning “Yahweh has been gracious.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Ваня comes from Ancient Greek, and ultimately from Old Church Slavonic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Russian usage, Ваня is a diminutive of Иван.
Ваня’s family of names
In Russian usage, Ваня is a diminutive of Иван. In Russian usage, Ваня has a later derivative in Vanja. In Russian usage, Ваня has a conventional equivalent in the French form Jean.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ваня has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
9 related names in 8 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Jackequivalent
- Johnnyequivalent
- JeanFrench
- HansGerman
- JohannGerman
- Vaniaequivalent
- Vanjaderivative · Swedish, Norwegian
- WanjaGerman
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People named Ваня
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