Vanya

Ваня (Vanya), a male diminutive of the Russian, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian and other Slavic given names Ivan. It is the Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian and other Slavic form of John itself derived from a Hebrew name, meaning "God is gracious" or "Graced by God". An alternative spelling of the name is Vanja. In Russia it is a male given name, in Bosnia and Herzegovina mainly a male given name, in Serbia and Croatia it is a unisex name. In the Scandinavian countries and in Bulgaria, it is a female given name.

Vanya may refer to:

People

Given name

• Vanya Cullen, winemaker
• Vanya Dermendzhieva (born 1958), Bulgarian former basketball player
• Vanya Gospodinova (born 1958), retired Bulgarian middle-distance runner
• Vanya Kewley (1937–2012), British journalist, documentary maker, and nurse
• Vanya Marinova (born 1950), retired Bulgarian gymnast
• Vanya Milanova (born 1954), violinist and recording artist
• Vanya Mirzoyan (born 1948), Armenian scientist-mathematician
• Vanya Mishra (born 1992), Indian actress, engineer, entrepreneur, and beauty pageant titleholder
• Vanya Petkova (1944–2009), Bulgarian poet and writer
• Vanya Shivashankar, speller
• Vanya Shtereva (born 1970), Bulgarian singer and writer
• Vanya Sokolova (born 1971), former Bulgarian volleyball playernational team
• Vanya Voynova (1934–1993), Bulgarian basketball player
• Vanya, a Kurdish name, it is the name of a type of flowers.

Surname

• Mária Vanya, Hungarian handballer

Art and entertainment

• Uncle Vanya, a 1897 tragicomedy by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov
• An Elf of the Vanyar in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien
• Vanya/Viktor Hargreeves in The Umbrella Academy comic book by Gerard Way

Other uses

• The codename for the Tsar Bomba, a powerful nuclear weapon
• Vanya-class minesweeper, minesweepers built for the Soviet Navy between 1960 and 1973

See also

• Vanja
• Wanja