Tanya (given name)

Tanya (given name)

Tanya is the Russian pet form or of Tatiana. It is now quite commonly used as an independent given name in the English-speaking world.A Dictionary of First Names, Patrick Hanks & Flavia Hodges, Oxford University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-19-211651-7.]

It's popularity grew in many respects thanks to Pushkin's poem Eugene Onegin, where the main character was Tatiana Larina, beloved by Onegin and Lenski.

Variants include Tania (an English spelling) and Tanja (German, Estonian, Finnish, Bosnian, Dutch, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian and Serbian).A Dictionary of First Names, Patrick Hanks & Flavia Hodges, Oxford University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-19-211651-7.]

It is the 237th most common name in the USA according to [http://www.namestatistics.com/search.php?name=Tanya namestatistics.com] , which uses US Census data.

People called Tanya

* Tanya Chua - a singer in Singapore
* Tanya Donelly - singer/guitarist for Throwing Muses, The Breeders, and Belly
* Tanya Dubnicoff - a Canadian track cyclist
* Tanya Dziahileva, a Belarusian model
* Tanya Haden - daughter of jazz double bassist Charlie Haden, wife of actor Jack Black
* Tanja Hart - German volleyball player
* Tanya Hughes - American high jumper
* Tanya Kemppainen - the former singer for the band Lullacry
* Tanya Roberts - actress
* Tanya Savicheva - Russian child diarist who died in 1944 during the Siege of Leningrad
* Tanya Tucker - an American country music singer
* Tanja Tzarovska - Macedonian singer
* Tanja Savic - Serbian Singer

ee also

* Tania

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