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 parents choose Anastasiia
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 Silesian
+163%1 in 5,238 babies
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West Pomeranian
+112%1 in 6,494 babies
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Lubusz
+66%1 in 8,276 babies
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Lesser Poland
−88%1 in 113,458 babies
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Lublin
−73%1 in 51,338 babies
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Subcarpathian
−66%1 in 40,188 babies
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Lower Silesian+163% 30 born1 in 5,238 babies+163%
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West Pomeranian+112% 13 born1 in 6,494 babies+112%
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Lubusz+66% 6 born1 in 8,276 babies+66%
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Łódź+41% 13 born1 in 9,748 babies+41%
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Silesian+33% 22 born1 in 10,345 babies+33%
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Masovian+32% 34 born1 in 10,420 babies+32%
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Opole+19% 4 born1 in 11,524 babies+19%
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Greater Poland+2% 16 born1 in 13,453 babies+2%
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Pomeranian−16% 9 born1 in 16,369 babies−16%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian−62% 3 born1 in 36,460 babies−62%
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Subcarpathian−66% 3 born1 in 40,188 babies−66%
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Lublin−73% 2 born1 in 51,338 babies−73%
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Lesser Poland−88% 2 born1 in 113,458 babies−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