Oya is a common feminine
Turkish given name
A Turkish name consists of an ''ad'' or an ''isim'' (given name; plural ''adlar'' and ''isimler'') and a ''soyadı'' or ''soyisim'' (surname). Turkish names exist in a "full name" format. While there is only one ''soyadı'' (surname) in the full na ...
. In Turkish, "Oya" means "lace", "Irish lace", and/or "lagestromia indica".
Ōya, also spelled Ohya or Oya, is a
Japanese surname
Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames, as determined by their kanji, although many of these are Japanese orthography, pronounced and romanization of Japanese, romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames w ...
. In Japanese, the meaning of the name depends on the
kanji
are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese ...
used to write it; some ways of writing the name include "big arrow" (), "big house" (, , or ), and "big valley" ().
People
Given name
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Oya Araslı, a Turkish law scholar and politician, and first woman group deputy chairman of Turkey
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Oya Aydoğan
Oya Aydoğan (10 February 1957 – 15 May 2016) was a Turkish actress, model, and television presenter. She was the winner of the Ses Magazine Movie Actress Contest in 1976.
She suffered from an aortic aneurysm on 7 May 2016, before Mother's Day ...
, Turkish actress
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Oya Başar, Turkish comedy actress
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Oya Baydar
Oya Baydar (born 1940) is a Turkish sociologist and writer. For a long time she was involved in socialist politics.
Education and early works
Oya Baydar studied at Lycée Notre Dame de Sion Istanbul. She published her first novel, inspired by F ...
(born 1940), Turkish sociologist and writer
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Oya Eczacıbaşı (born 1959), Turkish museum director
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Oya Kayacık (1938–2020), Turkish philanthropist
* , Turkish singer, actress and voice artist
* , Turkish academic, one of the founders of communication sciences in Turkey
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Oya Tuzcuoğlu (born 1948), Turkish diplomat
* , Turkish actress
* , Turkish award-winning poet
Surname
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Arif Oya, one of the
governors of Alanya
* , a Turkish actor, theatre director, theatre writer
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Bruno O'Ya (1933–2002), Polish–Estonian actor
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Goichi Oya
Goichi Oie (died August 2, 1944) was a captain in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, and died during the Battle of Tinian.
Biography
Goichi Oie was the subordinate to Admiral Kakuji Kakuta, the commander of the Tinian garrison. He ...
(died 1944), captain in the Imperial Japanese Navy
* , Japanese wrestler
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José Oya (born 1983), Spanish footballer
* , Japanese model
* , Japanese runner
* , Japanese volleyball player
* , Japanese entrepreneur and politician
* , Japanese idol
* , Japanese journalist
* , Japanese footballer
Fictional characters
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Oya (comics)
Oya (Idie Okonkwo) is a fictional superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in ''The Uncanny X-Men'' #528, in the third chapter of the "Five Lights" storyline, and was created by Matt ...
, a character from Marvel Comics
References
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Turkish feminine given names
Japanese-language surnames