Vanya

Vanya () is a Slavic unisex given name, hypocorism of the given names Ivan and Ivana, found in Russia and elsewhere. It is also found as a female given name in Bulgaria.

Notable people with the name include:

People

Given name

• Vanya Cullen, winemaker
• Vanya Dermendzhieva (born 1958), Bulgarian former basketball player
• Vanya Dmitrienko (born 2005), Russian singer
• 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, competitive 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
• The Vanyar are a kindred of elves in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien. The singular form of "Vanyar" is "Vanya".
• Vanya/Viktor Hargreeves in The Umbrella Academy comic book by Gerard Way
• Vanya Schmidt, the main character in the YA Little Thieves book series by Margaret Owens
• Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, a 2012 comedy play written by Christopher Durang

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