Stasia
Feminine · “resurrection”
Stasia is not always Anastasia. In Poland it is far more likely to be Stanislawa, the feminine of Stanislaw, which is a completely different name — a Slavic compound meaning something like may he become glorious, and belonging to the country's patron saint.
How old is the name Stasia?
Stasia first appears in US birth records in 1887 — 138 years ago. The typical Stasia alive today was born around 1940, making them about 85 years old. About 1,100 people named Stasia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Stasia most popular?
Stasia peaked in 1916, reaching #787 nationally. Today it ranks #11932, 11,145 places below that high. See the whole 1916 chart.
Where it comes from
From Stanislawa to Stasia
The story of Stasia
Slavic names were built as compounds and most of them are still transparent to speakers: Miroslav is peace and glory, Bogumil is dear to God, Vladimir is rule and peace or rule and greatness, Stanislaw is become glorious. They are wishes rather than descriptions. Stanislaw of Szczepanow was a bishop of Krakow killed in 1079 during a quarrel with King Boleslaw, by some accounts by the king in person and at the altar; the king was driven out of Poland and the bishop became the country's patron saint. The name has been ordinary in Poland ever since, and its feminine gives Stasia — which is also what Anastasia gives, from an entirely different direction.
Meaningscholars disagree
resurrection — or, in the Polish reading, becoming glorious
As a short form of Anastasia, the meaning is Greek anastasis, a rising up. As a short form of Stanislawa it is Slavic: stani, to become, with slav, glory. The two names have nothing in common and produce the same clip, and the record cannot tell them apart.
How the name formed
- Stanislawa
- Stasia
Related forms: Stasia · Anastasia
Pronouncing Stasia
STAH-shuh
Two syllables, stress on the first, in Polish. STAY-zhuh is the commoner American reading of the letters. Both are in genuine use and they sound quite different.
Nicknames for Stasia
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
- 1887
- Most girls named
- 191772 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #787reached in 1916
- Change vs 2022
- −22.2%7 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.
Stasia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Stasia in Polish — same name
- Anastasia in Greek — related form
Stasias among us
people named Stasia are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 229,610 born in 2025 was named Stasia
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Stasia
- #11932
- Stasia on the 2025 chart
- #943
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Stasia went to 7 girls in 2025, but Stacia 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 — 10,989 places above the chart.
- Stacia10
- Stasia7
About 1 girl in 94,545 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 229,610 for Stasia 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 Ether test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Stasia's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Ether climbed just as high around 1900, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ether's path sketches the road Stasia is walking now.
Stasia 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
Stasia beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Stasia in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two documented parent names, both of them with long records in Europe.
- Three short forms, two of which are full names elsewhere.
- Two syllables with nothing hard to say once the vowel is settled.
- The first vowel is said two ways and the spelling settles neither.
- It is a short form of two unrelated names, so the meaning depends on which family you are in.
- It is strongly represented among the oldest generations and reads clearly as of that time.
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Frequently asked
- How many Stasias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Stasia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Stasia?
- Stasia is one of 2 recorded spellings. Stacia is the more common one — 10 births in 2025 against 7 for Stasia.
- How popular is the name Stasia in 2025?
- Stasia ranks #11932 among US girl names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Stasia?
- About 1 in every 229,610 US girls born in 2025 was named Stasia — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Stasia with classmates?
- Stasia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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