Anastasia
Anastasia is a girl's name that peaked in 2018, when it was the 147th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 163rd. About 53,000 Anastasias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Anastasia boys named Anastasia
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 57,163
- Estimated living today
- 53,000
- Median age today
- 17
- Peak year
- 2018
- Best rank
- 147th
- Rank in 2025
- 163rd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 57,140 / 23
How old the living Anastasias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 57,163 babies given the name since 1880, about 53,000 are alive — 92 in every hundred. Roughly 26,000 of them are children and 930 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
From the name of a 4th-century martyr, from ἀνάστασις (“resurrection”). The name, and its male counterpart Anastasius, were originally given to children who were born around Eastertime during the early years of Christianity.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Anastasias
- Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (1901–1918)Grand Duchess of Russia (1901–1918); fourth child and youngest daughter of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)
- Anastasia Myskina (born 1981)Russian tennis player
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (born 1991)Russian tennis player
- Anastasia of Kyiv (1023–1074)Queen of Hungary from 1046 to 1060
- Anastasia Zavorotnyuk (1971–2024)Russian actress
- Anastasia Romanovna (1530–1560)first russian Tsarina as the first spouse of Ivan the Terrible
- Anastasia of Sirmium (300–304)Christian saint and martyr
- Anastasia Baburova (1983–2009)Ukrainian journalist
People named Anastasia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Anastasia is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Anastasia is most concentrated in Alaska (2.6×), Nevada (2.6×), Florida (2.0×), Arizona (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2018
The most popular girls’ names the year Anastasia peaked:
Anastasia elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy girls | Anastasia | 11,556 | — |
| France girls | Anastasia | 9,090 | 195th |
| England and Wales girls | Anastasia | 5,694 | 135th |
| Switzerland girls | Anastasia | 1,217 | 92nd |
| Belgium girls | Anastasia | 1,092 | 125th |
| Poland girls | Anastasia | 795 birth registrations | 166th |
| Ireland girls | Anastasia | 723 | 127th |
| Norway girls | Anastasia | 479 | 282nd |
| Scotland girls | Anastasia | 232 | 225th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Anastasia | 67 | 183rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Anastasia: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Anastasia | 816 | 0.066% | 85th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Anastasia | 294 | 0.068% | 89th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Anastasia | 106 | 0.163% | 34th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Anastasia | 1 | 0.027% | 9th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Anastasia is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.17% of children were given it – 104 of them.
Anastasia: rank by region
In 2025, Anastasia was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Anastasia | 303 | 18 |
| Wallonia | Anastasia | 86 | 28 |
| Brussels | Anastasia | 93 | 11 |
In 2023, Anastasia was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Anastasia | 8 | 1 |
In 2025, Anastasia was given 2 times or more in 5 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lubelskie | Anastasia | 147 | 2 |
| Mazowieckie | Anastasia | 217 | 5 |
| Śląskie | Anastasia | 255 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Anastasia | 165 | 5 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Anastasia | 175 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Anastasia appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (56th), Brussels-Capital Region (93rd), Province of Liège (138th) and Province of East Flanders (214th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Anastasia by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 210 | 96th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Anastasia among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Anastasia | 857 | 2,565 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Anastasia lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 5,333 women called Anastasia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ávila | Anastasia | 48 | 0.600 | 242 |
| Ciudad Real | Anastasia | 115 | 0.461 | 278 |
| Cáceres | Anastasia | 86 | 0.439 | 318 |
| Soria | Anastasia | 18 | 0.406 | 293 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Anastasia | 416 | 0.405 | 289 |
| Zamora | Anastasia | 31 | 0.371 | 359 |
Listed in 50 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 2 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Anastasia against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.