girls:
53.4k births since 1880
#553 (90th percentile)
boys:
23 births since 1988
#4563 (0th percentile)
overall:
53.4k births since 1880
#1037 (87th percentile)
The name Anastasia is the #1,037 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 53,446 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 86.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #553 (90.3% percentile) for all time with 53,423 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,563 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 23 births since 1988.
Anastasia has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1988 for boys).
The name Anastasia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Anastasia reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 84.9% percentile (ranked #146) with 1,023 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 1,034 births per million (ranked 84.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2012, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Anastasia is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #162 (83.0% percentile) with 986 births per million.
For boys, Anastasia reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #752) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Anastasia".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Anastasia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 37.3% confident that Anastasia is pronounced as a-nuh-STAY-zhuh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is A-nuh-STAY-zhuh, at 23.7% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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