In 2025, 1,832 US girls were named Anastasia, making it the 163rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 3 places from #166 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 1,842 girls named Anastasia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #147, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,905. For comparison, it was #217 in 2015 and #1,474 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Anastasia in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 10 babies with the name. In all, 57,163 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 14,118 babies named Anastasia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 17,922 US girls were named Anastasia; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 1,905. In 2025 that was about 1 in 877 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Anastasia ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #70 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 4 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Tasia (4,186 babies since 1880), Annastasia (2,083 babies since 1880) and Anastacia (5,114 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Anastacio, Anastazia and Anastasiya are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ana and Stacy.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, English, Greek and Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.