Anastasius
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/anəstejʃəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Anastasius is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country.
- CYCyprus1 in 419as Αναστασιος(measured from records)
- GRGreece≈1 in 2.9Kas Anastasios
- DEGermany≈1 in 39Kas Anastasios
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 Anastasius 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.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 215 (measured from records)
- 1 in 314K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 named Anastasios, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
4 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Anastasios in US United States, DE Germany, AU Australia and 3 more, Αναστασιου in GR Greece and Anastasiou in CY Cyprus.
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)
A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Anastasius is read(measured from records)
Anastasius is one spelling over 3 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.
- English37%
A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian22%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Anastasius in Indonesian.
- German16%
männl. Vom. griechischen Ur sprungs (zu griech. anástasis »Auferste hung«). Namenspatron ist der heilige Anas tasius (der
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anastasius 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR Greece | #222 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 434 | Αναστασιου | 168 |
| CY Cyprus | #221 | 3,020as Αναστασιος | 1 in 419 | 3K | Anastasiou | 66 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 1 | Anastasios | 101 |
| US United States | — | 1,446as Anastasios | 1 in 230K | 1.4K | Anastasios | 215 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 53K | 4 | Anastasios | 77 |
| SE Sweden | — | 297as Anastasios | 1 in 34K | 297 | Anastasios | 16 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Anastasios | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 55 | 1 in 314K | 55 | Anastasios | 30 |
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: Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Anastasius is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, a male given name from Ancient Greek, notably borne by
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Anastasius Ib. 340ITpope
- Anastasius IIIb. 801ITpope
- Anastasius IVb. 1073ITpope 1153–1154
- Anastasius Lagrantinus Rosenstengelb. 1687DEGerman soldier
- Anastasius Ludwig Menckenb. 1752DEGerman diplomat (1752-1801)
- Anastasius Hartmannb. 1803CHSwiss priest (1803-1866)
- Henri Viottab. 1848NLnot in their usual nameDutch lawyer, composer, conductor and musicologist (1848-1933)
- Anastasius IIITpope
- Anastasius BibliothecariusDEantipope and chief archivist of the Catholic church
- Anastasius the FullerItalian Roman Catholic saint
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 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 55 | #6,303 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 6 | #38,231 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1966 | 1 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2010 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1960 | 1 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Anastasius mean, and where does it come from?
- A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Anastasius?
- In the etymology graph, Anastacio, Anastasio and Anastazy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Anastasius?
- A machine transcription gives /anəstejʃəs/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Anastasius a male or female name?
- Anastasius is a male 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 Anastasius have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Anastasios in Greece, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Anastasius most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Anastasius is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 314 thousand people — even though Greece holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Anastasius?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 55 people named Anastasius, about 1 in 314 thousand residents.
- How common is Anastasius compared with other names?
- In Greece, Anastasius is the 222nd most common given name of 24,546 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anastasiusThe 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, “Anastasius” — the 222nd most common given name in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.