Fun Facts About the Name Annastasia
- More than 2 thousand babies named Annastasia: U.S. records list 2,082 babies given the name Annastasia from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Annastasia Mean?
Annastasia is a variant spelling of Anastasia, a feminine name taken from the Greek word anastasis, meaning "resurrection" or "rising again." The Greek term is formed from ana-, "up" or "again," and histanai, "to stand" or "to make stand." The name is the feminine counterpart of the Greek Anastasios. The literal sense of the word is a standing up or rising, and in Christian usage it came to mean specifically resurrection from the dead. Annastasia carries the same meaning as Anastasia and does not have a separate etymology of its own.
Annastasia Name History & Origins
Anastasia was used in the Greek-speaking Christian world from late antiquity. Early saints bore the name, among them Anastasia of Sirmium, a martyr honored in both the Eastern and Western churches, and Anastasia the Patrician. Through Byzantine and Orthodox tradition the name passed into Slavic and Russian usage, where it appears as Anastasiya and Nastasya, with the short form Nastya. Western European churches also kept the name alive through their calendars of saints, and it spread into Italian, Spanish, French, and later English naming.
The spelling Annastasia is a later variant of this same name. The doubled initial n most likely reflects the influence of the separate and very common name Anna, or simply the general tendency of European languages to fix the same spoken sound with more than one written form. Both Anna and Anastasia were widely used, and their spellings could affect each other. This explanation for the doubled consonant is not documented with certainty; Annastasia may also appear as an alternative transliteration or a straightforward phonetic respelling of Anastasia.
Annastasia shares in the name's well-known historical associations without having its own separate history. The best known is Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, daughter of the last tsar, whose fate after 1918 became the subject of persistent legends and later of plays and films. Those claims are part of popular storytelling rather than a record of the name's origin, and they are distinct from the early Christian and Byzantine use of the name that gave rise to the spelling in the first place.
How Popular is the Name Annastasia?
Annastasia has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2016. Its best rank was #2,258 in 1994.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #3,526 | 43 | 0.0027% |
| 2024 | #3,956 | 37 | 0.0023% |
| 2023 | #3,916 | 38 | 0.0024% |
| 2022 | #3,219 | 50 | 0.0031% |
| 2021 | #3,395 | 46 | 0.0028% |
| 2020 | #3,341 | 46 | 0.0028% |
| 2019 | #2,892 | 57 | 0.0034% |
| 2018 | #2,650 | 65 | 0.0038% |
| 2017 | #2,905 | 57 | 0.0033% |
| 2016 | #2,324 | 81 | 0.0046% |
| 2015 | #3,351 | 48 | 0.0027% |
| 2014 | #5,174 | 26 | 0.0015% |
| 2013 | #3,791 | 40 | 0.0023% |
| 2012 | #4,224 | 35 | 0.0020% |
| 2011 | #4,158 | 35 | 0.0020% |
| 2010 | #3,749 | 41 | 0.0023% |
| 2009 | #4,583 | 32 | 0.0017% |
| 2008 | #4,188 | 37 | 0.0020% |
| 2007 | #2,600 | 71 | 0.0037% |
| 2006 | #3,020 | 56 | 0.0029% |
| 2005 | #2,554 | 67 | 0.0036% |
| 2004 | #3,132 | 49 | 0.0027% |
| 2003 | #2,739 | 57 | 0.0031% |
| 2002 | #2,500 | 63 | 0.0035% |
| 2001 | #3,146 | 44 | 0.0024% |
| 2000 | #2,375 | 65 | 0.0036% |
| 1999 | #3,152 | 41 | 0.0023% |
| 1998 | #3,355 | 36 | 0.0020% |
| 1997 | #3,108 | 38 | 0.0022% |
| 1996 | #2,478 | 51 | 0.0029% |
| 1995 | #2,518 | 50 | 0.0028% |
| 1994 | #2,258 | 58 | 0.0032% |
| 1993 | #3,054 | 38 | 0.0021% |
| 1992 | #3,346 | 33 | 0.0018% |
| 1991 | #2,358 | 54 | 0.0029% |
| 1990 | #2,404 | 51 | 0.0027% |
| 1989 | #2,372 | 49 | 0.0027% |
| 1988 | #2,449 | 44 | 0.0025% |
| 1987 | #2,916 | 33 | 0.0019% |
| 1986 | #4,547 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 1985 | #6,051 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1984 | #4,173 | 18 | 0.0011% |
| 1983 | #6,744 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1982 | #6,920 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1981 | #3,866 | 20 | 0.0012% |
| 1980 | #5,564 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 1979 | #9,081 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1978 | #6,976 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1977 | #9,717 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1976 | #6,071 | 9 | 0.0006% |
| 1975 | #9,147 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1974 | #8,840 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1973 | #6,114 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1971 | #5,568 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1970 | #7,104 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1968 | #6,287 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1967 | #5,473 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1924 | #4,470 | 6 | 0.0005% |
| 1923 | #5,001 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1922 | #3,161 | 10 | 0.0008% |
| 1920 | #4,425 | 6 | 0.0005% |
| 1919 | #4,851 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1917 | #4,112 | 6 | 0.0006% |
| 1915 | #3,813 | 6 | 0.0006% |
| 1914 | #3,206 | 6 | 0.0008% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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