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Женя

Женя (Žénja) is a unisex given name. It is used in Russian and Ukrainian.

Bulgarian and Russian and Ukrainian and inhWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Ženâ.

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Meaning & origin

How it developed

Built from French Eugène + Russian -я.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Женя’s family of names

In Russian usage, Женя is a diminutive of Евгений. In Russian usage, Женя has a transliteration in Ženâ. In Ukrainian usage, Женя can be written in the Roman alphabet as Žénja.

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Around the world

Женя has relatives in 3 languages.

5 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.

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Nicknames & forms 2

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 11

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

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People named Женя

Liu ZhenyaChairman of State Grid Corporation of Chinaborn 1952

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