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How popular is the name Anastasia?

Births per year, rank history and how many Anastasias are alive today.

Anastasia (female) sits just outside the top 100 girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 212th in 2025 with 221 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2021, when 369 babies were given the name, the 135th most popular that year. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 5,600 babies have been named Anastasia in England and Wales since 1996. Common short forms of Anastasia include Stacey, Ana and Asya.

The Anastasia you are most likely to meet is around 6 years old. Half of all Anastasias born in England and Wales are between 6 and 24, and there are at least 6,400 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 2% chance that at least one of them will be called Anastasia.

How many babies are named Anastasia each year?

Where does Anastasia rank among girls' names?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.