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Anastazja

From the Greek for "resurrection". It reached a high point in the 2010s and is given a little less often now, though it still rings familiar across Poland.

Anastazja Pronunciation

Anastazja is pronounced ah-nahs-TAHZ-yah (/anasˈtazja/).

Alive in 2025
25,179
Newborns 2025
928
National rank
#254
Next name day
11 November
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What Anastazja means

Where Anastazja comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Anastazja traces back to Greek anastasis, the word for resurrection. In Polish that is zmartwychwstanie. Early Christians took to the name for its plain promise, and one of its bearers, Saint Anastasia, an early martyr, is still commemorated on 25 December.

The root travelled east and west without losing its shape. In the South Slavic and Baltic sphere the same name appears as Anastasija, a variant that shows the Greek outline a little more plainly than the Polish spelling. Everyday speech wears it down to Nastka or Stasia, forms a school register might list beside the full entry.

Few Polish names wear their meaning so openly. The resurrection sense here is the origin itself, present from the very first use. So Anastazja means exactly what anastasis meant.

When Anastazja celebrates name day

Anastazja appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 15 April.

Next name day
11 November
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Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.

How many people are named Anastazja

1 in 895 women in Poland is named Anastazja. 25,179 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #254 among female names.

People with the name Anastazja 2019 → 2025
25,179 +6,232 since 2019
2020 19,617 +670
2021 20,805 +1,188
2022 22,020 +1,215
2023 23,401 +1,381
2024 24,293 +892
2025 25,179 +886

Anastazja's popularity over time

928 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #72 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2000.

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928 newborns with the name Anastazja in 2025
national rank #72 that year

Where parents choose Anastazja

Anastazja is most popular in Kuyavian-Pomeranian, 44% above the national average (620 girls born 2019–2025), followed by West Pomeranian (+37%) and Warmian-Masurian (+35%). It is least common in Lesser Poland and Holy Cross, 33% and 30% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Kuyavian-Pomeranian
    +44%
    1 in 176 babies
  • West Pomeranian
    +37%
    1 in 185 babies
  • Warmian-Masurian
    +35%
    1 in 188 babies
Chosen least
  • Lesser Poland
    −33%
    1 in 382 babies
  • Holy Cross
    −30%
    1 in 365 babies
  • Subcarpathian
    −27%
    1 in 346 babies

Anastazja as a middle name

Anastazja is a first name for 25,179 women in Poland and a middle name for another 16,036, a 61/39 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 94th, between Olga (16,119) and Zdzisława (14,646).

As a first name
25,179
As a middle name
16,036
first name 61% middle name 39%
Middle-name ranking women

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