MEANING & HISTORY
What does Anastacia mean?
Anastacia is a variant of Anastasia, the feminine of Anastasius. The Greek source is associated with anastasis, resurrection or rising again.
This gives the family a strong Christian naming history, especially through early saints. Anastacia preserves the same ancestry with a different consonant spelling. The meaning is the older religious and lexical concept of rising again rather than a statement about any event in the present-day bearer’s own life.
Pronunciation & syllables
Dictionary readings are kept by language. Select the reading that matches your intended pronunciation. Dots show the source’s written divisions; they are not a universal syllable count across languages.
Tagalog
- /ʔanasˈtasja/Standard-Tagalog
- [ʔɐ.n̪ɐsˈt̪aː.ʃɐ]Standard-Tagalog
- /ʔanasˈtasja/no palatal assimilation
- [ʔɐ.n̪ɐsˈt̪as.jɐ]no palatal assimilation
A · nas · tac · ia4 source divisions
Dictionary reading & contributors ↗Wiktionary contributors / Kaikki / Wiktextract · CC BY-SA 4.0
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
TagalogEtymology & source
Borrowed from English Anastacia.
a female given name from English
Wiktionary: Anastacia (Tagalog) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
EnglishEtymology & source
A female given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Anastasia.
Wiktionary: Anastacia (English) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
People with the name Anastacia
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Anastacia Giron-Tupas
founder of the Philippine Nurses Association and first Filipino nurse to hold the position of Chief Nurse Superintendent (1890-1972)
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Anastacia Vistan
Philippine politician
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
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distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Anastacia Vistan, Anastacia Giron-Tupas
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Anastacia in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Anastacia
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Anastasia♀Resurrection
- Altagracia·High grace, from a Marian title
- Antonia♀Feminine of the Roman family name Antonius
- Engracia♀In a state of grace
- Alicia♀Noble kind; form of Alice
- Ananias·The Lord is gracious; Greek form of Hananiah
- Angelia♀Elaborated form of Angela
- Angelica♀Angelic; ultimately from Greek messenger
What rhymes with Anastacia?
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Explore Anastacia further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q20002071 — Anastacia (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Anastacia Vistan (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q20002071 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wikidata — Anastacia Giron-Tupas (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q20002071 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Anastacia (Tagalog) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Anastacia (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Behind the Name — Anastacia (opens in a new tab)
Consulted account of the name’s formation, relevant root elements, or explicitly linked base name.
- Behind the Name — Anastasia (opens in a new tab)
Consulted account of the name’s formation, relevant root elements, or explicitly linked base name.
- Behind the Name — Anastasius (opens in a new tab)
Greek anastasis means resurrection, the root of this feminine-name family.