Anastasia

Meaning: Resurrection
Origin: Greek

Nicknames: Stacey

Girl's name · #163 in the US (2025) · 2020s wave

Popularity over time

Anastasia reached its best rank, #147, in 2018 and ranked #163 in 2025. About 57,000 girls have carried it since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.

Across the states

See where Anastasia is more common.

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 48 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

See how Anastasia ranks in other countries and regions.

#96 in Australia (NSW) (2025) · #141 in Austria (2025) · #151 in Canada (2025) · #153 in Belgium (2025) · #188 in France (2025) · #188 in Switzerland (2025) · #212 in England & Wales (2025) · #231 in N. Ireland (2025) · #246 in New Zealand (2025) · #248 in Poland (2025) · #266 in Ireland (2025) · #283 in Sweden (2025) and 10 more.

Famous Anastasias

Anastasia Myskina — Russian tennis player (born 1981)
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova — Russian tennis player (born 1991)
Anastasia of Kyiv — Queen of Hungary from 1046 to 1060 (1023–1074)
Anastasia Zavorotnyuk — Russian actress and television presenter (1971–2024)
Anastasia Romanovna — First russian Tsarina as the first spouse of Ivan the Terrible (1530–1560)
Anastasia Baburova — Ukrainian journalist (1983–2009)

In stories & tradition

Anastasia Dualla — Battlestar Galactica (TV series)
Anastasia Petrovna Korobochka^Wikidata — Dead Souls (book)
Anastasia — The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls (video game)

Where Anastasias come from

Among 768 notable bearers:

Russia 47%, Greece 11%, Ukraine 9%, Soviet Union 9%, United States 4%, Belarus 3% and 60 more countries.

What Anastasias become

Among 1,048 notable people named Anastasia:

Sports figures appear 2.16× more often than among typical names — e.g. Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player (born 1981).

Spellings & nicknames

About 58 girls a year are given Stacey as their full name.

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