Anastasia
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Greek, ‘risen once more’; used in England from the 13th century and spread to Ireland
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ænəsteɪʒə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Anastasia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 20th most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 7.4K(measured from records)
- CNChina≈1 in 22K
- BYBelarus≈1 in 45as Анастасия
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Anastasia itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #50 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 443 (measured from records)
- 1 in 87 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400,000 named Анастасия, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
4 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Анастасия in RU Russia, BY Belarus, CN China, Анастасія in UA Ukraine and Αναστασια in GR Greece.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Greek, ‘risen once more’; used in England from the 13th century and spread to Ireland.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
How Anastasia is read(measured from records)
Anastasia is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English39%
Greek, ‘risen once more’; used in England from the 13th century and spread to Ireland.
as a nameIrish first names
Russian from Greek; saint; 'resurrection'
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
A female given name from Ancient Greek.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Russian17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Anastasia in Russian.
- Spanish9.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Anastasia in Spanish.
- French6.4%
From Greek Anastasia, feminine of Anastasius, meaning 'resurrection'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- German5.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Anastasia in German.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Anastasia, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
- Cassandra
- Evangeline
- Cordelia
- Cecilia
- Calista
- Beatrice
- Bernadette
- Esmeralda
- Bianca
- Francesca
- Calliope
- Christiana
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anastasia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #20 | ≈2,400,000 est. | ≈1 in 59 | #15 | Анастасия | 256 |
| UA Ukraine | #36 | ≈280,000 est. | ≈1 in 156 | listed | Анастасія | 128 |
| BY Belarus | #16 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 45 | 18 | Анастасия | 77 |
| GR Greece | #104 | 119,920as Αναστασία | 1 in 88 | 120K | Αναστασια | 173 |
| CN China | — | ≈63,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Анастасия | 22 |
| US United States | — | 44,877 | 1 in 7.4K | 45K | Anastasia | 443 |
| MD Moldova | #46 | 38,544 | 1 in 87 | 39K | Anastasia | 52 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ELSTAT — population given names; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); e-services.md — living population register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Anastasia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Anastasia är ett grekiskt namn med ursprung i ordet anástasis ’uppståndelse’. Det har varit vanligt i Ryssland i formen Anastasija.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Italian, forma fem. de Anastasio
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anastasia Romanovnab. 1530RUfirst russian Tsarina as the first spouse of Ivan the Terrible
- Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russiab. 1860FRRussian grand duchess (1860-1922); only daughter of Grand Duke Michael Nicolaievich of Russia and Princess Cecilie of Baden
- Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russiab. 1901RUGrand Duchess of Russia (1901–1918); fourth child and youngest daughter of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)
- Anastasiya Vertinskayab. 1944RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actress
- Anastasia Zavorotnyukb. 1971RURussian actress (1971–2024)
- Anastasia Myskinab. 1981RURussian tennis player
- Anastasia Davydovab. 1983RURussian synchronized swimmer
- Anastasia Zadorozhnayab. 1985RURussian actress
- Anastasiia Prykhodkob. 1987UAUkrainian singer
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkovab. 1991RURussian tennis player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 117 sources across 57 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 45K | #970 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 39K | #24 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.8K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 77 | #970 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Anastasia?
- A machine transcription gives /ænəsteɪʒə/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Anastasia?
- In the etymology graph, Stacy, Stacey and Anastasiia are forms of the same name in other languages; Stacia is a recorded short or pet form.
- What does the name Anastasia mean, and where does it come from?
- Greek, ‘risen once more’; used in England from the 13th century and spread to Ireland. Recorded by Irish first names.
- Is Anastasia a male or female name?
- Anastasia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Anastasia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 million people named Анастасия in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Anastasia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Anastasia is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 87 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Anastasia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 44,877 people named Anastasia in 2020, about 1 in 7.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Anastasia compared with other names?
- In Russia, Anastasia is the 20th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anastasiaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Anastasia” — the 20th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.