Given name & surname
Wanja
“John”·“Jane”
Wanja is a unisex given name from Russian. It is used in German.
Original RussianВаня
Meaning & origin
What it means
Wanja is built from elements meaning “John” and “Jane”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In German usage, Wanja is a diminutive of Иван.
Wanja’s family of names
In German usage, Wanja is a diminutive of Иван. In German usage, Wanja has a related form in Johannes. In German usage, Wanja has a conventional equivalent in the English form Vania.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Wanja
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