{{Infobox given name | name = Ananya | image = | image_size = | caption = | pronunciation = | gender = | meaning = | region = India | language = Hindi<br />Sanskrit | origin = | alternative spelling = | nickname = | variant forms = | related names = | name day = | derived = | popularity = | footnotes = | wikt = }}
'''Ananya''' is the common English spelling of two Indian given names: the masculine अनन्य ''{{IAST|ananya}}'' and the feminine अनन्या ''{{IAST|ananyā}}''.<ref name="Gandhi 2004 girls">{{cite book |last=Gandhi |first=Maneka |title=The Penguin Book of Hindu Names for Girls |publisher=Penguin Books |publication-place=New Delhi |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-14-303169-7 |oclc=60454994 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OM4MqU2GgLwC&pg=PA5 |pages=5 |access-date=2018-12-15 |archive-date=2020-10-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201012000951/https://books.google.com/books?id=OM4MqU2GgLwC&pg=PA5 |url-status=live }}</ref> The meaning of name Ananya is "unique".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.timesnownews.com/baby-names/meaning-of-ananya#:~:text=%3A-,Ananya,Unique%2C%20Different%20from%20others%2C%20Charming | title=Meaning of Ananya, Baby Name Ananya Meaning, Lucky Number, Gender, Origin and Personality Traits }}</ref>
== Notable people named Ananya == * Ananya (actress) (born 1987), Indian actress * Ananya Agarwal, Indian television child actress * Ananya Bhat (born 1993), Indian playback singer * Ananya Birla (born 1994), Indian singer, songwriter and entrepreneur * Ananya Chatterjea, Indian dancer and scholar * Ananya Chatterjee (born 1977), Indian actress * Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Indian literary scholar working in Britain * Ananya Kasaravalli, Indian film actress and director * Ananya Khare (born 1968), Indian actress * Ananya Nagalla, Indian actress * Ananya Nanda, Indian playback singer * Ananya Panday (born 1998), Indian actress * Ananya Roy (born 1970), American-Indian urban theorist * Ananya Vajpeyi, Indian academic and writer
== See also == * Ananya Express, Indian Railways superfast-class train * Anannya Magazine, a women's Bengali-language magazine * Anannya Nattya Goshthi, a theatre group * ''Lepiota ananya'', a gilled mushroom found in Kerala, India * Shree Airlines, Nepalese airline formerly known as Air Ananya * {{intitle|Ananya}}
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