| [ syll. a-nya, an-ya ] The girl name Anya is pronounced as EHNYah KEY. Anya is largely used in the Russian language, and its origin is Old Greek and Hebrew. Anya is a Russian pet form of the name Anastasia (English, German, Greek, and Russian). Anya is also a Russian pet form of the name Anna (Hebrew, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Scandinavian, and Slavic). Anya is fairly popular as a baby name for girls, and it is also considered trendy. The name's popularity has been growing since the 1990s. Its usage peaked recently in 2007 with 0.042% of baby girls being given the name Anya. Its ranking then was #366. In 2007, among the group of girl names directly linked to Anya, Anna (Hebrew, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Scandinavian, and Slavic) was the most widely used. Its use outnumbered Anya's by 9 times in that year. Baby names that sound like Anya include Enya (English), Aimee (English), Aimée (French), Aimi (English), Aimie (English), Aimy (English), Aina (African, Finnish, Scandinavian, and Catalan), Aino (Finnish), Amy (English), Aymi (English), Emine (Turkish), Emma (English, French, and German), Emmy (English), Enna (Frisian and German), Agné (Lithuanian), and Ania (Polish and Russian). KEY: approx English pronunciation for Anya: EH as in "Ed (EH.D)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; Y as in "yield (Y.IY.L.D)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"
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