We learn in 7.05 Selfless that Anya’s name as a human was Aud. She came from Sjornjost, and became a vengeance demon in 880 A.D. after turning her cheating boyfriend Olaf into a troll. D’Hoffryn offered her the vengeance demon job and renamed her Anyanka.
Related episodes: 7.05 Selfless
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Puja on June 16th, 2005 at 5:39 pm
Actually, D’Hoffryn renamed Aud as Anyanka. It was Anya herself who picked out the name Anya when she appeared to give Cordelia vengeance.
Puja
Jess on June 17th, 2005 at 9:33 am
Sorry - it was a long day yesterday when I wrote that! I’ll change it now.
Jet on October 28th, 2006 at 5:36 am
I always thought it was funny that her name is pronounced “odd.”
Swede on May 25th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Like I said in the other trivia, it does not even rhyme with odd. Odd is in fact a real Scandinavian name, but a male one (and pronounciation of that one is pretty close, depending on dialect, to the word “odd”).
Sjornjost is btw completely fictional, just so there’s no doubt.