Anastasia

Where Anastasia comes from

From the name of a 4th-century martyr, Ancient Greek Ἀναστασία (Anastasía), from ἀνάστασις (anástasis, “resurrection”). The name, and its male counterpart Anastasius, were originally given to children who were born around Eastertime during the early years of Christianity.
— Wiktionary's entry for Anastasia
  • Ancient Greek
  • 4 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #547 among girls — 10 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1981
    Anastasia Myskina born
    Russian tennis player
  3. 1991
    Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova born
    Russian tennis player
  4. 2018
    Peak, #147
    1,905 babies named Anastasia — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Namesakes
  • 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, 1971–2024
  • Anastasia Romanovna · first russian Tsarina as the first spouse of Ivan the Terrible, 1530–1560

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.