Tanya (name)

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Tanya is the Slavic hypocoristic of Tatiana. It is now quite commonly used as an independent given name in the English-speaking world.^[1]

The name's popularity grew in many respects thanks to Alexander Pushkin's poem Eugene Onegin whose main character was Tatiana Larina, beloved by Onegin.

Variants include Tania (Ukrainian), Tanja (Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Norwegian, German, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Dutch, Slovene and Macedonian),^[1] Tania (Romanian), Táňa (Czech) or Taanya (Levant and Indian subcontinent)^[2]

It is the 237th most common name in the United States according to namestatistics.com, which uses US Census data.^[3]

Tanya[]

• Major Tanya, stage name of Noelle Rose, professional wrestler from the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
• Onika Tanya Maraj, Trinidadian-born rapper, singer, songwriter, actress, and model.
• Tanya Burr, English vlogger and blogger
• Tanya Byron, a British psychologist
• Tanya Chan, a legislator in Hong Kong
• Tanya Christiansen, American mathematician
• Tanya Chua, a singer in Singapore
• Tania Coleridge, British model/Girl in Father Figure music video
• Tanya Compas, British activist
• Tanya Donelly, singer/guitarist for Throwing Muses, The Breeders, and Belly
• Tanya Dubnicoff, Canadian track cyclist
• Tanya Dziahileva, Belarusian model
• Tanya Garcia, Filipina television and film actress
• Tanya Haden, daughter of jazz double bassist Charlie Haden, wife of actor Jack Black
• Tanya Hansen, Norwegian pornographic actress.
• Tanya Hughes, American high jumper
• Tanya Hunks, Canadian swimmer
• Tanya Kappo, Canadian lawyer and Indigenous rights activist
• Tanya Mercado (as known as Gina Lynn), Puerto Rican pornographic actress
• Tanya Moore (died 1986), American murder victim
• Tanya Oxley, Barbadian track and field sprinter
• Tanya Plibersek, Australian politician and Minister for Health
• Tanya Roberts, actress
• Tanya Savicheva, Russian child diarist who died in 1944 during the Siege of Leningrad
• Tanya Tagaq, Canadian Inuk throat singer
• Tanya Tate, a US-UK porno actress
• Tanya Tucker, American country music singer,
• , Indian Stock Market Analyst and Writer
• Tanya Joshi Indian- South African Art Curator

Fictional[]

• Tanya Branning, in the soap opera Eastenders
• Tanya Turner, the lead character on the ITV drama Footballers Wives
• Tanya Mousekewitz, from the film An American Tail
• Agent Tanya Adams, a soldier in the Command & Conquer: Red Alert video game series
• , the eponymous young girl turned sadistic battalion commander in the light novel series, manga, and anime, The Saga of Tanya the Evil
• Tanya Sloan, a character from Power Rangers Turbo
• Tanya, a character in the Mortal Kombat universe
• Tan-ya, a main character in Korean fantasy/mythology Arthdal Chronicles, foretold to be the direct descendant of a goddess.
• Tanya Robertson, from the movie Sleepwalkers
• Tanya, a character in Jacqueline Wilson novel Bad Girls

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See also[]

• Tania (name)
• Tanja (name)
• Tonia (name)
• Tonja (name)
• Tonje (name)
• Taneya

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