Anastasiia
From Greek anastasis, "resurrection", the word early Christians used for rising from the dead. Around 57,000 people in Poland carry it, though this exact spelling is the Ukrainian one: the home-grown form is Anastazja.
Anastasiia Pronunciation
Anastasiia is pronounced ah-nahs-TAHSH-yah (/anasˈtaɕja/).
What Anastasiia means
Where Anastasiia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name comes from Greek. Anastasis meant resurrection, a rising up, and the early Church took it as a word of hope. From that noun came Anastasia, and the meaning held close to the source: resurrection, zmartwychwstanie in Polish.
Anastasia of Sirmium, a martyr venerated since the fourth century, carried the name into the calendar of saints. In Ukraine the spelling Anastasiia became one of the most common girls' names of the past two decades. The Polish variant is Anastazja, and diminutives like Nastia and Nastka soften it for everyday use.
Read a class register in a Ukrainian school and you will likely find the name more than once. It travels well. The tie to resurrection sits in the Greek root itself, anastasis, the same word the Gospels use for rising from the dead.
How many people are named Anastasiia
1 in 392 women in Poland is named Anastasiia. 57,502 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #172 among female names.
Anastasiia's popularity over time
27 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #452 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2018. Still the #172 name among living women, even as it slips to #452 among newborns.
Where Anastasiia is most popular
Anastasiia is most popular in Lower Silesian, 163% above the national average (30 girls born 2019–2025), followed by West Pomeranian (+112%) and Lubusz (+66%). It is least common in Lesser Poland and Lublin, 88% and 73% below average respectively.
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Lower Silesian30 girls born+163%
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West Pomeranian13 girls born+112%
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Lubusz6 girls born+66%
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Łódź13 girls born+41%
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Silesian22 girls born+33%
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Masovian34 girls born+32%
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Opole4 girls born+19%
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Greater Poland16 girls born+2%
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Pomeranian9 girls born−16%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian3 girls born−62%
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Subcarpathian3 girls born−66%
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Lublin2 girls born−73%
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Lesser Poland2 girls born−88%
Anastasiia as a middle name
Anastasiia is a first name for 57,502 women in Poland and a middle name for another 51, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 950th, between Alana (51) and Annie (51).
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#948 Tiffany52
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#949 Alana51
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#950 Anastasiia51
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#951 Annie51
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#952 Carina51