Katya

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| pronunciation= {{IPA|ru|ˈkatʲə|lang}}

| gender = Female

| meaning = Baby Sunshine

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| related names = Yekaterina, Katherine, Catherine, Katja

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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,{{Cite web |url=http://www.mfnames.com/fnames/k/origin-and-meaning-of-katya.htm |title=MFnames.com - Origin and Meaning of Katya |access-date=2009-02-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211202149/http://www.mfnames.com/fnames/k/origin-and-meaning-of-katya.htm |archive-date=2017-02-11 |url-status=dead }} which is a Russian form of Katherine.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|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170212183953/http://www.mfnames.com/fnames/y/origin-and-meaning-of-yekaterina.htm |date=2017-02-12 }} 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 Aytak (Miller) (born March 17 2001), American fire performer and healer. Famous for the double bubble fire-bubble performance at High Sierra Music Festival. Very rare specimen of the purest form Owner Operator of the Fox Den, Chico CA

• 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, British journalist
• Yekaterina Budanova (1916–1943), also known as Katya, female Soviet fighter ace in the Second World War
• Katya De Giovanni, Maltese politician
• Katya Scheinberg, Russian-American applied mathematician
• Katya Soldak, 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/nonexistant movie Goncharov (1973)