Meaning & History
Diminutive of Agafangel..
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Gender Feminine
Usage Yiddish
Scripts Фаня(Russian, Belarusian) פאַניע(Yiddish)
Other Forms FormsFania, Fanye
Meaning & History
From the Spanish Estefania, brought to Eastern Europe by the Jews expelled from Spain during the Spanish Inquisition.
Meaning & History
From Chinese 范 (fàn) meaning "bee" and 雅 (yǎ) meaning "elegant, graceful, refined", or other characters with a similar pronunciation.