Stacia
Feminine · “Greek anastasis”
Stasis in Greek means standing, and it also means civil war. A polis in stasis was a city torn by faction, because the word covers a position taken up and a party formed to hold it. Anastasis, standing up again, is the word for resurrection.
How old is the name Stacia?
Stacia first appears in US birth records in 1893 — 132 years ago. The typical Stacia alive today was born around 1976, making them about 49 years old. About 7,800 people named Stacia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Stacia most popular?
Stacia peaked in 1971, reaching #577 nationally. Today it ranks #9457, 8,880 places below that high. See the whole 1971 chart.
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Where it comes from
From anastasis to Stacia
The story of Stacia
The Greek verb histemi, to stand, produced an unusually wide family. Stasis is a standing, a position, and by extension a faction and then civil strife; Thucydides uses it for the internal wars that destroyed Greek cities, and the medical sense of a stoppage came much later. Ekstasis is standing outside oneself, which gives ecstasy. Systema is a standing-together, a system. Apostasis is a standing away, giving apostasy. Anastasis is a standing up again, and it is the word the New Testament uses for resurrection, both of Christ and of the dead generally. So a single verb of posture supplies Greek and then English with words for a riot, a system, a trance, a defection and the central claim of Christianity, and the name sits on the last of them.
Meaning
Greek anastasis, resurrection
Stacia is a short form of Anastasia, from Greek anastasis, a standing up or rising again, from ana, up, and histemi, to stand. It was used by early Christians for the resurrection and became a name through several martyrs. The same root gives stasis, static, ecstasy and system. The American peak is 1971.
How the name formed
- anastasis
- Anastasia
- Stacia
Related forms: Nastya · Stacy · Anastasia
Pronouncing Stacia
STAY-shah
Two syllables, stress on the first. Some families say STASS-ee-ah with three. Polish Stacja and Greek Stasia are said differently again.
Nicknames for Stacia
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
- 1893
- Most girls named
- 1971303 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #577reached in 1971
- Change vs 2023
- +11.1%10 in 2025, 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.
Stacia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Nastya in Russian — related form
- Stacy in English — related form
- Anastasia in Greek — same name
Stacias among us
people named Stacia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 160,727 born in 2025 was named Stacia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Stacia
- #9457
- Stacia on the 2025 chart
- #943
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Stacia went to 10 girls in 2025, but Stasia is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 17, which makes it the 943rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 8,514 places above the chart.
- Stacia10
- Stasia7
About 1 girl in 94,545 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 160,727 for Stacia itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Angelita test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Stacia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Angelita climbed just as high around 1932, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Angelita's path sketches the road Stacia is walking now.
Stacia 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
Stacia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Stacia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Anastasia is available as the formal version.
- Two syllables and six letters, compact and clear.
- The Greek meaning is documented and significant.
- The syllable count varies between speakers.
- Stacy is far commoner in American use.
- It reads as a short form rather than a full name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Stacias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 7,800 people named Stacia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Stacia?
- Stacia is the most-used spelling in US records — 10 of the 17 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Stasia.
- How popular is the name Stacia in 2025?
- Stacia ranks #9457 among US girl names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Stacia?
- About 1 in every 160,727 US girls born in 2025 was named Stacia — 10 in all.
- Will my child share the name Stacia with classmates?
- Stacia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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