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Worldwide, Vanja (Vanja , Ваня , Вања ) is a common gender-neutral first name. The first name Vanja is habitual in Southern Europe, particularly Croatia, where it is a common gender-neutral name, Serbia, where it is a common mostly female, but infrequently masculine name, and Montenegro (explore the name in all countries). Not in comparison with a country's population, it is the most numerous in Serbia, Russia, and Croatia. Much less frequently, Vanja is the last name as well as the forename.
Vanja is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Ivan Vanko , the fictional character from 2010 film 'Iron Man 2'; Ivan Drago , the fictional Russian boxer from the film Rocky IV; Ivan the Fool , the character from Russian folklore, The Little Humpbacked Horse; Ivan Petrovich , the character from Dostoyevsky's Humiliated and Insulted and Major Pronin , the fictional character in Lev Ovalov's works, Captain Pronin, among other works.
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