Like its male equivalent Anastasius, Anastasia is derived from the Greek name Anastasios, which means ‘resurrection’. It is composed of the words ‘ana’ meaning ‘up’ and ‘stasis’ meaning ‘standing’.
Anastasia is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Anastasia isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Anastasia ranks 186. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 10 were named Anastasia. In the entire USA, approximately 47,196 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Anastasia. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Like its male equivalent Anastasius, Anastasia is derived from the Greek name Anastasios, which means ‘resurrection’. It is composed of the words ‘ana’ meaning ‘up’ and ‘stasis’ meaning ‘standing’.
This was the name of ... a 4th-century Dalmatian saint who was martyred. Due to her, the name has been common in Eastern Orthodox Christianity. As an English name, it has been in use since the Middle Ages.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Anastasia annualy. This means that there have been girls named Anastasia who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Anastasia have consistently been special. Since 2000, however, the name has experienced a certain popularity: in 2018 it holds its present record at #144 in the ranking of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Anastasia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Anastasia has never been ranked higher than #144. In 2022, she rivaled the 157 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 1,747 girls named Anastasia were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Anastasia were born, there have been 741 newborns who were given this name.
The name Anastasia may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Anastasia is apparently especially popular in Alaska. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 1,070 women in Alaska is called Anastasia. In total, that’s 178 women who feel addressed when the name Anastasia is shouted loudly across Alaska and who ensure that their name makes it to #276 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Anastasia as the answer a total of 47,196 times. This places Anastasia at #535 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Anastasia as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With nine letters, the name Anastasia is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Anastasia and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Anastasia, you can simply say:
Apple
Nut
Apple
Sun
Tiger
Apple
Sun
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Anastasia
Anastasia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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N
A
S
T
A
S
I
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
N
A
S
T
A
S
I
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Anastasia sounds like this:
