Nastasia
Feminine · “resurrection”
Nastasia is one way English writes the Russian Nastasya, the everyday form of Anastasia, the Greek word for resurrection. It is the name of the heroine of Dostoevsky's The Idiot, Nastasya Filippovna, whose scene with a packet of banknotes and a fireplace is among the most famous in Russian fiction.
How old is the name Nastasia?
Nastasia first appears in US birth records in 1918 — 107 years ago. The typical Nastasia alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 500 people named Nastasia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Nastasia most popular?
Nastasia peaked in 1987, reaching #3169 nationally. See the whole 1987 chart.
Where it comes from
From Greek anastasis to Nastasia
The story of Nastasia
In The Idiot, published in 1868 and 1869, Nastasya Filippovna is a woman whose former guardian is trying to marry her off, and several men are bidding for her. At her name-day party the merchant Rogozhin brings a hundred thousand rubles in a paper packet. She throws it into the fire and tells the ambitious Ganya it is his if he will pull it out with his bare hands; he refuses and faints, and she pulls it out herself with the tongs. Russian names have no single English spelling, and Nastasia is one of several that translators and families have used for her name.
Meaning
resurrection, through Anastasia
Nastasya is the Russian colloquial form of Anastasia, from Greek anastasis, resurrection or rising again. Nastasia is one English spelling of it and carries no separate history.
How the name formed
- Greek anastasis
- Anastasia
- Nastasya
- Nastasia
Related forms: Nastasya · Anastasia · Anastazja
Pronouncing Nastasia
nah-STAH-see-ah
Russian says nah-STAH-syah, with the last two vowels running together. English speakers usually give it four syllables.
Nicknames for Nastasia
Limited
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
- 1918
- Most girls named
- 198729 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3169reached in 1987
- Change vs 2021
- −22.2%7 in 2023, from 9
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.
Nastasia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Nastasya in Russian — transliteration
- Anastasia in Greek — related form
- Anastazja in Polish — related form
Nastasias among us
people named Nastasia are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
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Fashion outlook
Nastasia sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Anastasia's meaning and history in a shorter, less crowded form.
- A great novel gives it a heroine readers remember.
- Nastya is a ready, affectionate short form.
- People will hear Anastasia and write it that way, or add a second s; the spelling will need saying.
- Dostoevsky's heroine is murdered at the end of the novel, and readers of The Idiot will know it. The character is memorable rather than lucky, and the name has plenty of life outside the book.
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Frequently asked
- How many Nastasias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Nastasia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Nastasia in 2025?
- Nastasia is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Nastasia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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