Anastasija
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ah-nah-STAH-see-yah
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #6,837 for girls
Anastasija is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “resurrection”. In 2025 it ranked 6,837th for girls in the US (16 babies).
What does Anastasija mean?
Greek: Serbian, Macedonian and Baltic form of Anastasia
“resurrection”
The Slavic and Baltic spelling of Anastasia, from Greek anastasis, meaning resurrection.
Is Anastasija a girl's or a boy's name?
Anastasija is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Anastasija in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2011, with 16 girls.
Half of all the girls named Anastasija in the UK since 1996 were born between 2010 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Anastasija in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 1 | #7,346 |
| 2018 | 8 | #3,068 |
| 2017 | 7 | #3,395 |
| 2016 | 9 | #2,893 |
| 2015 | 9 | #2,855 |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 13 | #2,174 |
| 2012 | 13 | #2,210 |
| 2011 | 16 | #1,824 |
| 2010 | 9 | #2,741 |
| 2009 | 7 | #3,201 |
| 2008 | 7 | #3,203 |
| 2007 | 9 | #2,543 |
| 2006 | 5 | #3,724 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 1 | #6,173 |
| 2003 | 1 | #5,865 |
How popular is Anastasija in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,837th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 16 about 1 in 100,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 16 girls in the US were named Anastasija, making it the 6,837th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. It first appears in the records in 2000.
2025 had the most girls named Anastasija of any year since it first appeared, in 2000.
Half of all the girls named Anastasija in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Anastasija in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,837 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,242 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,712 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,405 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,001 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,282 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,828 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,259 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,102 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
Nicknames for Anastasija
Names like Anastasija
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Amira, Ayra, Hafsa, Ayla, Abeeha, Aiza, Amaya, Aaliyah, Anaya, Ayah, Khadija
Names related to Anastasija
More Greek names
Luca, Theodore, Sophia, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Anastasija: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/anastasija, updated 20 October 2026.