Anastasios
Masculine · “Greek anastasis”
Anastasis means standing up again. Ana is back or up, stasis is standing, and the compound is the ordinary Greek word for a resurrection. Greek families have used it for children born at Easter for sixteen hundred years, so the name is a calendar entry as much as a statement.
How old is the name Anastasios?
Anastasios first appears in US birth records in 1922 — 103 years ago. The typical Anastasios alive today was born around 1988, making them about 37 years old. About 1,000 people named Anastasios are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Anastasios most popular?
Anastasios peaked in 1974, reaching #1520 nationally. Today it ranks #8243, 6,723 places below that high. See the whole 1974 chart.
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Where it comes from
From anastasis to Anastasios
The story of Anastasios
Greek Easter naming is a real and continuing practice: a child born at Easter may be called Anastasios or Anastasia, one born at Christmas Christos or Christina, one born on the feast of the Dormition Panagiotis or Panagiota. The custom sits alongside the stronger Greek rule that a first son is named for his paternal grandfather and a first daughter for her paternal grandmother, which is why Greek families recycle a small number of names across generations with great regularity. The stasis element in the name is worth following: it gives English ecstasy, standing outside oneself, apostasy, standing away, and stasis itself, and it appears in hundreds of Greek compounds. The name has been carried by emperors, patriarchs and a Persian saint, and it remains among the most common men's names in Greece.
Meaning
Greek anastasis, resurrection
From Greek ana, up or again, and stasis, a standing, from histemi, to stand. Anastasis is the word used in the New Testament for resurrection and is the name of the church built over the tomb in Jerusalem. Anastasios is the masculine personal name and Anastasia the feminine. It peaks in the American data in 1974.
How the name formed
- anastasis
- Anastasios
Related forms: Anastasios · Anastasiy · Anastasio
Pronouncing Anastasios
ah-nah-STAH-see-os
Five syllables, stress on the third. The final -os is the Greek masculine ending and is kept in Greek and dropped elsewhere: Italian has Anastasio, Russian Anastasiy. English speakers usually shorten to Tasos or Stacy rather than attempt the full form.
Nicknames for Anastasios
Moderate
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
- 1922
- Most boys named
- 197433 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1520reached in 1974
- Change vs 2024
- +80.0%9 in 2025, from 5
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.
Anastasios in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Anastasios in Greek — transliteration
- Anastasiy in Russian — same name
- Anastasio in Italian — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York.
Anastasioss among us
people named Anastasios are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 189,786 born in 2025 was named Anastasios
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 Baltazar test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Anastasios's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Baltazar climbed just as high around 1948, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Baltazar's path sketches the road Anastasios is walking now.
Anastasios 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
Anastasios beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Anastasios in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled and central to the tradition that uses it.
- Tasos and Sakis are warm and established Greek short forms.
- It has a continuous history of sixteen centuries.
- Five syllables is very long for American use.
- The English short form Stacy is now female.
- It is rare outside Greek American families.
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Frequently asked
- How many Anastasioss are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Anastasios are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Anastasios in 2025?
- Anastasios ranks #8243 among US boy names in 2025, with 9 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Anastasios?
- About 1 in every 189,786 US boys born in 2025 was named Anastasios — 9 in all.
- Will my child share the name Anastasios with classmates?
- Anastasios will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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