Anastasiya is from the Russian Anastasiya (Анастасия) — from the Greek Anastasis (Ἀνάστασις — resurrection). Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanov (1901-1918) was the youngest daughter of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II — executed with her family in Yekaterinburg during the Russian Revolution. Her identity became central to one of the most-discussed historical mysteries of the 20th century — with multiple false claimants including Anna Anderson — definitively resolved in 2007 when her remains were identified via DNA. Saint Anastasia of Sirmium (d.
Anastasiya does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Anastasiya reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.