Anja

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The female first name Anja is a Russian nickname of Anna / Anne .

The name is also used in Scandinavia and Slovenia .

In the English and especially Spanish-speaking countries, the alternative spelling Anya is common.

The name day is July 26th.

distribution

The name Anja was not very common in Germany in the first half of the 20th century. It then quickly became popular in the 1950s. From the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, it was often among the ten most frequently given girls' first names of the respective year. In the 1990s, its popularity fell sharply.

Name bearers

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Anya

  • Anya Benton , American-Russian actress and model
  • Anya Chalotra (born 1995 or 1996), British actress
  • Anya Kochoff (* 1969), American screenwriter and former tennis player
  • Anya Lahiri (* 1982), British actress, singer and model
  • Anya Major (* 1966), British athlete, actress, model and singer
  • Anya Marina (* 1976), American singer-songwriter
  • Anya Monzikova (* 1984), Russian-American actress and model
  • Anya Taylor-Joy (* 1996), Argentine-British actress
  • Anya Teixeira (1913–1992), British photographer and photojournalist of Ukrainian origin
  • Anya Ulinich (* 1973), Russian-born American painter and writer
  • Anya Verkhovskaya (* ≈1969), Russian consultant, managing director, film producer and human rights activist

Fictional characters

Web links

Wiktionary: Anja  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics on "Popular first names"