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Vanya Zhuk
Ваня (''Vanya''), a male diminutive of the Russian, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian and other Slavic given names Ivan (name), Ivan. It is the Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian and other Slavic form of John (given name), John itself derived from a Hebrew name, meaning "God is gracious" or "Graced by God". An alternative spelling of the name is ''Vanja''. In Russia it is a male given name, in Bosnia and Herzegovina mainly a male given name, in Serbia and Croatia it is a unisex name. In the Scandinavian countries and in Bulgaria, it is a female given name. 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), A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan (name)
Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgarian tsar Ivan Vladislav. It is very popular in Russia, Ukraine, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Belarus, North Macedonia, and Montenegro and has also become more popular in Romance-speaking countries since the 20th century. Etymology Ivan is the common Slavic Latin spelling, while Cyrillic spelling is two-fold: in Bulgarian, Russian, Macedonian, Serbian and Montenegrin it is Иван, while in Belarusian and Ukrainian it is Іван. The Old Church Slavonic (or Old Cyrillic) spelling is . It is the Slavic relative of the Latin name , corresponding to English ''John''. This Slavic version of the name originates from New Testament Greek (''Iōánnēs'') rather than from the Latin . The Greek name is in tur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |