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Tanya

American  
[tan-yuh, tahn-] / ˈtæn yə, ˈtɑn- /

noun

  1. a female given name.


Example Sentences

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Tanya Mouchawrab, 37, and her two daughters, Lily, 13, and Ivy, 11, stayed up late the night before making a trio of cakes – lemon, red velvet and rainbow.

From BBC

Tanya Lervik, a College Park, Md., resident who had a 1939 Buick, is a car enthusiast.

From The Wall Street Journal

Earlier this month, The New York Times’ Tanya Sichynsky dedicated an entire newsletter to the vegetable after a reader reached out, asking how they could use up all the cabbage they received from their local farmers’ market.

From Salon

Romance novelist Florence Keeling, born in Coventry, writes under her name as well as using the pen name Charlie Dean and the darker romance material as Tanya Mounts.

From BBC

—Tanya Bush is a writer and baker.

From The Wall Street Journal