Anastasia

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Anastasia is ranked 166th among girls in 2024 (1,832 births). Its best rank was 147th, in 2018.

Rank in 2024: #166up 1 from 2023
Births in 2024: 1,8320.11% of girls
Peak year: 20181,904 births
Best rank: #147in 2018
Since 1880: 55,275people given the name

Babies named Anastasia, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

55,275 girls have been named Anastasia in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 1,904 births — 0.11% of all girls recorded that year.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2018, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2005, and the 2010s alone account for 26%. It has spent 118 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Anastasia
1880s	164
1890s	314
1900s	350
1910s	1,035
1920s	1,023
1930s	465
1940s	392
1950s	586
1960s	1,517
1970s	2,396
1980s	4,831
1990s	8,495
2000s	10,859
2010s	14,111
2020s	8,737

In 2018, its biggest year

Anastasia was the 147th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2018 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Isabella and Sophia. See all of 2018.

Names that rose and fell with Anastasia

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Annastasia2,039 ever

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.