Anastasia
Feminine · “Resurrection”
Anastasia is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 57,140 girls against 23 boys since 1880.
Anastasia comes from the Greek word for resurrection, and it has been said aloud in churches from Constantinople to Kyiv for something like seventeen centuries. Five syllables that rise and fall and land softly at the end — a long name that has never needed shortening, though it has collected short forms in every language it entered.
How old is the name Anastasia?
Anastasia was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Anastasia alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 53,000 people named Anastasia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Anastasia most popular?
Anastasia peaked in 2018, reaching #147 nationally. Today it ranks #163, 16 places below that high. See the whole 2018 chart.
Where it comes from
From anastasis (Greek: resurrection) to Anastasia
The story of Anastasia
The name is Greek and Christian from the start: anastasis was the word for the Resurrection, and Anastasia was given to daughters as a piece of that vocabulary. It spread with the Eastern church into the Slavic world, where it became one of the great staples of Russian and Ukrainian naming, and westward into Latin Christendom, where it survived in calendars and saints' days. English speakers largely knew it as a foreign name until the twentieth century, when the story of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna — and the long tangle of rumors, imposters, books and films that followed her — carried it into American ears. It has been on the US charts ever since records began, never dominant, never gone.
Meaning
Resurrection; she who will rise again
From Greek anastasis, 'resurrection, a rising up' — the feminine counterpart of the man's name Anastasios.
Cultural footprint
Anastasia Nikolaevna, Grand Duchess of Russia (b. 1901) — The tsar's daughter whose rumored survival inspired decades of legend and films
Source: Wikidata — the one source on this page that is not an official agency.
How the name formed
- anastasisGreek: resurrection
- Anastasios
- Anastasia
- Anastasiya
- Stacy
Related forms: Αναστασία · Анастасия (Anastasiya) · Anastasiia · Anastazja · Anastasie · Anastasia
Pronouncing Anastasia
an-uh-STAY-zhuh
That is the usual American pronunciation. Greek, Russian and much of Europe say an-ah-stah-SEE-ah, stressing the second-to-last syllable, and plenty of families in the US use that version too.
Nicknames for Anastasia
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What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 20191,899 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #147reached in 2018
- Change vs 2022
- +3.5%1,832 in 2025, from 1,770
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Anastasia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Αναστασία in Greek — same name
- Анастасия (Anastasiya) in Russian — transliteration
- Anastasiia in Ukrainian — transliteration
- Anastazja in Polish — spelling variant
- Anastasie in French — related form
- Anastasia in Italian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Anastasias among us
people named Anastasia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 877 born in 2025 was named Anastasia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Marisa test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Anastasia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Marisa climbed just as high around 1994, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Marisa's path sketches the road Anastasia is walking now.
Anastasia sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Anastasia is headed
Anastasia should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Anastasia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Anastasia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled, documented meaning in Greek — resurrection — with no competing readings.
- Recognized across Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Italian and Spanish, with spellings close enough that it travels intact.
- Several long-established short forms, from Ana to Stacy to Nastya, so the child has real choices rather than invented ones.
- Present in US records for the whole span they cover, without ever crowding classrooms.
- Two pronunciations coexist: an-uh-STAY-zhuh and an-ah-stah-SEE-ah. Both are correct, but she will be asked which one she uses, probably for life.
- Five syllables and nine letters. Forms, teachers and coffee cups will shorten it whether or not the family does.
- The name is closely tied to the Romanov story and the films it produced, and more recently to the heroine of the Fifty Shades novels. Neither association is overwhelming, but both are out there.
- Stacy, historically the English short form, reads as a name of its own to many people and belongs to an older generation of American women.
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Frequently asked
- How many Anastasias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 53,000 people named Anastasia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Anastasia in 2025?
- Anastasia ranks #163 among US girl names in 2025, with 1,832 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Anastasia?
- About 1 in every 877 US girls born in 2025 was named Anastasia — 1,832 in all.
- Will my child share the name Anastasia with classmates?
- Anastasia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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