Asya is a given name with varied origins. It is a Turkish feminine given name meaning Asia.^[1] It is a Bulgarian and Russian diminutive form of the feminine given name Anastasia, meaning resurrection.^[2] It is also a form of the Arabic name Asiya, meaning thoughtful.^[3]

People

• Asya of Diauehi, a ruler of the Kingdom of Diaokhi, a confederation of proto-Georgian tribes, who reigned around the middle of the 9th century BCE.
• Asya (singer) (born 1965), Turkish singer
• Asya, ring name of American bodybuilder, model and professional wrestler Christi Wolf
• Asya Abdullah (born 1971), Kurdish politician, co-chairwoman of the Democratic Union Party (PYD)
• Asya Alashaikh, founder and CEO of Tamkeen Company for sustainable solutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• Asya Ramazan Antar (1998-2016), Kurdish Women's Protection Units (YPJ) fighter who has become a symbol of the feminist struggle in the Rojava conflict and in the fight against ISIS, by international media.
• Asya Branch (born 1998), American beauty pageant titleholder and Miss USA 2020 winner
• Asya Bussie (born 1991), American basketball player
• Adi Asya Katz (born 2004), Israeli rhythmic gymnast
• Asya Kolchynska (1918-2010), Ukrainian pathophysiologist, medical doctor, professor, and Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology
• Asya Miller (born 1979), American goalball player
• Asya Pereltsvaig (born 1972), Russian linguist
• Asya Rolls, Israeli, psychoneuroimmunologist and International Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and an associate professor at the Immunology and Center of Neuroscience at Technion within the Israel Institute of Technology
• Asya Saavedra, founding member of the music group Smoosh renamed Chaos Chaos
• Asya Sultanova (1923-2021), Azerbaijani composer
• Asya Yeutykh (born 1962), goldsmith and bladesmith from the Republic of Adygea in Russia

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