Anja

For the Dutch pronunciation of Anja, you can listen to the audio clips featured on the websites below:

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• https://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/Anja (in Dutch)
• https://nl.forvo.com/search/Anja/nl/ (in Dutch)
• https://youtu.be/zCWKgZTWHQ8 (in Dutch; the narrator is Dutch and the name is said at 0:00 and 0:13)
• https://youtu.be/Z9WC5zpHo2E (in Dutch; the narrator is Dutch and the name is said at 0:21 and 0:23)

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Converted to IPA, it should be: /'ɑn.ja:/ [noted -ed]

I am from Germany and my name is Anja and it is pronounced Ann-yah. You can hear the correct pronunciation by clicking the link below :)
https://www.germannames.de/wiki/Anja

AN-ya (Swedish, Croatian, Serbian, German, Polish), AHN-yah (Finnish), AHN-yə (English)

In Portuguese Anja is pronounced AHN-zha.

I'm British and my name is Anja, pronounced ANN-YAH. My main bugbear is the common mistake people in my country make pronouncing it as ANN-JAH. Even at my graduation. But what can you do?

My youngest is named Anja, and sadly the other commenter was correct about English pronunciation rules/lack thereof. Such a beautiful name! But hacked to bits. Of course, no one here speaks Scandic/Germanic languages, so if you're in America and are thinking about Anja, consider Anya or Ania.

Ah-yah is correct. If you want to pronounce it ah-jah then spell it an?a.

Listen to the German pronunciation of Anja here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/Aussprache.html.

I know a girl called Anja. We pronounce it AN-yah (Norwegian).

It is pronounced as UNN-yah.