Anastasija
From the Greek *anastasis*, "resurrection". This eastern spelling keeps the older Greek sound, while most Polish girls take the form Anastazja, and even that stays rare enough that meeting one sticks in memory.
Anastasija Pronunciation
Anastasija is pronounced ah-nahs-tah-SHEE-yah (/anastaˈɕija/).
What Anastasija means
Where Anastasija comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Anastasija reaches back to the Greek anastasis, meaning resurrection. The word belonged to the vocabulary of the early Church before it belonged to any child. Anastasia of Sirmium, a martyr venerated since the fourth century, carried it into the calendar of saints, and her feast still falls on the twenty-fifth of December.
In Poland the name lives most often as Anastazja, the variant that suits both speech and the official form. Anastasija keeps the older, eastern shape, closer to the Greek sound. Both hold one meaning, zmartwychwstanie.
Read a Kraków class register on a name-day and an Anastazja answers to a word that once named an empty tomb. The meaning is old. From the very start, Anastasija has meant resurrection.
How many people are named Anastasija
1 in 85071 women in Poland is named Anastasija. 265 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1875 among female names.
Anastasija's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Anastasija as a middle name
Anastasija is a first name for 265 women in Poland and a middle name for another 9, a 97/3 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2518th, between Amandine (9) and Andzelika (9).
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#2516 Alla9
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#2517 Amandine9
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#2518 Anastasija9
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#2519 Andzelika9
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#2520 Anni9