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View Name: Tanya


TANYA
GENDER: Feminine
USAGE: Russian, English
OTHER SCRIPTS: Таня (Russian)
PRONOUNCED: TAHN-yə (English), TAN-yə (English)   [key]
Meaning & History
Russian diminutive of TATIANA. It began to be used in the English-speaking world during the 1930s.
Related Names
VARIANT: Tania (English)
DIMINUTIVE: Latanya (English (African American))
OTHER LANGUAGES: Tanja (Croatian), Taina, Tanja (Finnish), Tanja (German), Tânia (Portuguese), Tanja (Serbian), Tanja, Tjaša (Slovene)
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