Anya or Sienna (for sister Sofia)

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Hi all. I’m expecting a girl and my top two favourite names are Anya and Sienna. Sister is Sofia. Which do you prefer?
Thank you!

Anya is lovely.

Anya is quite popular now. I don't think you will get too many people struggling with it.

Aine is an irish name pronounced Anya or On-ya....might that work?

Anya

Anya - much more classy.

Anya although I prefer Anna. Sienna seems a little dated now like it had its day about 10 years ago and now just sounds a bit naff (in my
Opinion anyway!)

Sofia and Anya, beautiful ! ❤️

Aine is an irish name pronounced Anya or On-ya

Nope, it really isn't pronounced either of those ways. The nearest I can get to writing the pronunciation of Áine is AWN-ya. Definitely not either Anya or Onya.

OP, I love Anya & think it would go very well with Sofia. I like Sienna too, but Anya would be a better choice.

Anya. I'm not keen on Sienna. If it's the city, it should be Siena, so that bugs me.

Definitely Anya, much nicer and less common than Sienna

Anya.

I find Sienna a bit trendy/tacky.

Siena if spelt like the city

Anya. It's pretty , easy to spell and pronounce and very international.

Anya is lovely.

Anya sounds harsh to me. Anna is better.

Aine is definitely not pronounced as Anya! Awn-ya, as a pp said.

Anyway OP I would go for Anya.

I have a teenage Anya. People always use the Irish pronunciation and we have had people spelling it with a j. We went for the anglicized version as we thought it would reduce confusion. People can pretty much mispronounce and misspell any name at all lol. That said, I only know two others, one older, one younger.

Eh?

My cousin name is Aine and it's pronounced called Anya.

Are you forgetting that accents read differently on screen? Depending on where you are from AWN and ON can be pronounced very similarly.

sorry pronounced. Not pronounced called!

I think that if you polled Irish people, the vast majority will pronounce Aine something similar to Awn-ya. If you know someone pronouncing it as Anya, fine, but that's not the standard and not the name OP is looking for.

Anya

I'm not keen on Sienna. If it's the city, it should be Siena, so that bugs me.

I don't think people who use it, are naming heir child after the city, for the most part.

Sienna the name just happens to be similar to Siena the city. But one's a girls' name and has two Ns. The other's the name of a city in Italy.

Anyway, sienna the colour is spelt with two Ns.

Thank you all!
Anya it will be. Now just to find a middle name.....