Anya
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name from Russian or Ukrainian, of modern usage
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/æɲə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Anya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 5th most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 34as Anna(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 36as Anna
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 36as Ana
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Anya itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #9 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 622 (measured from records)
- 1 in 34 (inferred from the name graph)
3,948,650 named Ana, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden, as Anna
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Anna in US United States, PL Poland, SE Sweden and 1 more, Ana in BR Brazil, SV El Salvador, PT Portugal, Анна in RU Russia and Ганна in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A female given name from Russian or Ukrainian, of modern usage.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anya counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #5 | 3,948,650as Ana | 1 in 54 | 3.9M | Ana | 287 |
| RU Russia | #15 | ≈2,500,000 est. | ≈1 in 56 | #5 | Анна | 302 |
| PL Poland | #1 | 1,063,756as Anna | 1 in 36 | 1.1M | Anna | 282 |
| UA Ukraine | #10 | ≈910,000 est. | ≈1 in 48 | listed | Ганна | 162 |
| US United States | #75 | 512,954as Anna | 1 in 648 | 512K | Anna | 622 |
| SE Sweden | #2 | 302,994as Anna | 1 in 34 | 303K | Anna | 212 |
| CZ Czechia | #15 | 269,638as Anna | 1 in 40 | 270K | Anna | 170 |
| PT Portugal | #2 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 42 | 622 | Ana | 240 |
| SV El Salvador | #10 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 36 | — | Ana | 108 |
3,948,650 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); MVČR — living population register 2017; IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Anya is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hungarian, mother
as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian
In duo, what
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anya Setonb. 1904USAmerican author of historical fiction (1904-1990)
- Anya Tarandab. 1915USAmerican actress (1915-1970)
- Anya Oko Anyab. 1937NGbiologist
- Anya Majorb. 1966GBBritish athlete and actor
- Anya Hindmarchb. 1968GBBritish designer
- Anya Kochoffb. 1969USUS tennis player and screenwriter
- Anya Wub. 1976TWTaiwanese model and actor
- Anya Olsenb. 1994USAmerican pornographic actress
- Anya Taylor-Joyb. 1996USactress (born 1996)
- Anya Chalotrab. 1996GBBritish actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 84 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 17K | #1,747 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 821 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 367 | #3,419 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 237 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 182 | #1,083 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 182 | #1,083 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 175 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 172 | #27,903 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 55 | #1,747 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 29 | #54,174 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 27 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 12 | #4,955 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Anya mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name from Russian or Ukrainian, of modern usage. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Anya?
- A machine transcription gives /æɲə/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Anya?
- In the etymology graph, Ana, Ann and Nancy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Anya a male or female name?
- Anya is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Anya have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.9 million people named Ana, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Anya most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Anya itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Sweden's: the national register counts about 1 in 34 people named Anna.
- How common is the name Anya?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 3,948,650 people named Ana in 2022, about 1 in 54 residents.
- How common is Anya compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Anya is the 5th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Anya?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anyaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Anya” — the 5th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.