Anka (first name)
Anka (Bulgarian, Serbian: Анка) is a feminine given name .
Origin and meaning
It's a diminutive of Anne . Other variants are Aneta (Polish), Anelia / Aneliya / Neli (Bulgarian), Anica / Anita / Ankica (Croatian), Anica (Serbian).
Well-known namesake
- Anka Baier (* 1966), German actress
- Anka Bakowa (* 1957), Bulgarian rower
- Anka Grupińska (* 1956), Polish non-fiction author, journalist and publicist
- Sibyll-Anka Klotz (* 1961), German politician
- Anka Kröhnke (* 1940), German visual artist
- Anka Muhlstein (* 1935), French historian
- Anka Pelowa (* 1939), Bulgarian sports shooter
- Anka Schmid (* 1961), film director, screenwriter and video artist
- Elizabeth Anka Vajagic , Canadian singer and guitarist
- Anka Zink (* 1957), German cabaret artist, author and director
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Mike Campbell: Meaning, origin and history of the name Anka. Retrieved April 26, 2019 .