Katya
title: "Katya" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["russian-feminine-given-names", "slavic-feminine-given-names", "feminine-given-names", "bulgarian-feminine-given-names", "macedonian-feminine-given-names", "serbian-feminine-given-names", "ukrainian-feminine-given-names", "slovene-feminine-given-names", "croatian-feminine-given-names"] topic_path: "geography/russia" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katya" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Katya |
| pronunciation | |
| gender | Female |
| related names | Yekaterina, Katherine, Catherine, Katja |
| :: |
| name = Katya | image= | imagesize= | caption= | pronunciation= | gender = Female | meaning = | region = | origin = | related names = Yekaterina, Katherine, Catherine, Katja | footnotes = Katya is a feminine given name. It is a very popular name in Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Serbia, and North Macedonia. It is a Russian diminutive form of Yekaterina, which is a Russian form of Katherine. The name is sometimes used as an independent given name in the English-speaking world. In German, Dutch and Scandinavian languages it is spelled Katja. Katya may also refer to:
In the arts:
- Katya Chilly (born 1978), Ukrainian singer
- Katya Jones (born 1989), Russian dancer
- Katya Lee (born 1984), Russian singer songwriter and fashion designer
- Katya Medvedeva (born 1937), Russian naïve painter
- Katya Paskaleva (1945–2002), Bulgarian actress
- Katya Reimann (born 1965), American writer of fantasy novels
- Katya Santos (born 1982), Filipina actress and model
- Katya Zamolodchikova, (performed by Brian McCook, born 1982), American drag queen
In other fields:
- Katya Adler (born 1972), British journalist
- Yekaterina Budanova (1916–1943), also known as Katya, female Soviet fighter ace in the Second World War
- Katya De Giovanni, Maltese politician
- Kattya González (born 1977), Paraguayan politician
- Katya Scheinberg, Russian-American applied mathematician
- Katya Soldak (born 1977), journalist and documentary filmmaker (documentary The Long Breakup, 2020)
In fiction:
- Katya Derevko, on the ABC television series Alias
- Katya Kinski, on the Australian soap opera Neighbours
- Katya Nadanova, Bond girl in the game James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
- Katya Orlova, heroine of John le Carré's novel The Russia House and the film adaptation
- Katya Vogt, the protagonist of Sandra Birdsell's historical novel The Russländer (aka Katya)
- Katya (Highlander), an Immortal in Highlander: The Series
- Katya, a character in the 2013 movie Stalingrad.
- Katya Udinov, Alexandra Udinov's mother in Nikita
- Katya, fictional villain portrayed by Danny Denzongpa in the 1996 Indian film Ghatak
- Katya Michailov Goncharova, a character from the internet meme/nonexistent movie Goncharov (1973)
Other uses
- Katya (spider), a genus of spiders
References
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ar:كاتيا da:Katja de:Katja ru:Катя fi:Katja sv:Katja
References
- "MFnames.com - Origin and Meaning of Katya".
- This name is also can be spelled '''Katia'''. [http://www.mfnames.com/fnames/y/origin-and-meaning-of-yekaterina.htm MFnames.com - Origin and Meaning of Yekaterina] {{Webarchive. link. (2017-02-12)
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