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Gender Feminine
Scripts Ֆենյա(Armenian) Феня(Russian)
Other Forms FormsVariant transcriptions: Fenia, Fenja. Variant form: Фения (Feniya).
Meaning & History
Russian diminutive of Agrafena, Feodosiya, Feofaniya, Ifigeniya, Trifena and possibly also Yevgeniya. Also compare Genya and Zhenya.As an Armenian name, it might possibly be a diminutive of Yevgenya.Lastly, in addition to all of the aforementioned, the name Fenya could possibly also be the Armenian and Russian form of the Greek given name Fenia.A known bearer of this name was Fenia Chertkoff (1869-1927), a Russian-Argentine educator, feminist and political activist. Please note that Fenia is a variant transcription here: her original name would have been either Феня (Fenya) or Фения (Feniya).