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