Given name · Russian · Ukrainian
Яша
“heel”
Яша (Jáša) is a masculine given name. It is used in Russian and Ukrainian.
Russian and UkrainianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Jáša.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Яша comes from Hebrew, and ultimately from Polish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Russian usage, Яша is a diminutive of Яков.
Яша’s family of names
In Russian usage, Яша has a diminutive in Я́шенька. In Russian usage, Яша has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Giacomo. In Russian usage, Яша can be written in the Roman alphabet as Jáša.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
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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