Anastasia

[ElmtreeMama]

What do people think of name Anastasia ?
And does anyone have any similiar suggestions for girls? :)

Ana-STAY-zia
Ana-STAH-zia
Ana-STAY-zha
Ana-STAH-zha

Which one are you going for?

For me it's like Lucia, v pretty but the lack of a single pronunciation would drive me a bit mad.

Love it.
Anastasia and Tatiana, my fantasy twin daughters (my actual twins are boys)

@FolornLawn

Ana-STAY-zia Ana-STAH-zia Ana-STAY-zha Ana-STAH-zha

Which one are you going for?

Ana-stay-zha or Ana-stay-zia, I wouldnt mind if people mixed those two up, it hadn't occurred to me people might use the stah pronunciation tbh!

Tatiana is very pretty

There's also Ana sta SEE ya.

I agree Tatiana rocks

Oksana
Zosia (prn Zosha) diminutive of Zofia
Dasha dim of Daria
Angelica

I like it a lot ♥️

It's a very pretty name, but not my style - much too frilly.

I LOVE it with the Ana-stay-zia pronunciation

I love it. In fact, I think each of the different pronunciations is lovely, so i wouldn’t be too worried about people getting it wrong. I imagine Anastasia would be rather an exciting, intelligent, well-read woman who has a dark sense of humour. And it’s cute for a little one, too.

@Orphlids

I love it. In fact, I think each of the different pronunciations is lovely, so i wouldn’t be too worried about people getting it wrong. I imagine Anastasia would be rather an exciting, intelligent, well-read woman who has a dark sense of humour. And it’s cute for a little one, too.

I love that description Makes me love the name even more :)

I think it's a beautiful name. To me, the different pronunciations are just people's accents rather than a real difference like Eve-lyn/Evlin.

I love it OP, I also love Anoushka (sorry not sure how it's spelt) and Natalia and Natasha. And Francesca.

I love it but it's thoroughly 'Russian', so I think you'd need Russian Ancestry or live there for it to really work.

It’s lovely and something different among all the Evie’s/Lily’s/Amelias/Evas/Evelyns

Honestly, unless you are Russian I wouldn't. And even then, both Anastasia and Tatiana are names of the murdered Romanov daughters so I probably wouldn't because of the unhappy connotations.

I love it!
I would pronounce it Ana stay zia.

I love this name, it was my fantasy name that I wished my parents had given me when I was about 10 years old - I think she was a character from a book I read! I always thought it was the Ana-stay-Zia pronunciation but I prefer Ana-sta-see-ya pronunciation now, which I hear more often from my Colleagues (Romanian/Bulgarian).

@MadMadMadamMim

Honestly, unless you are Russian I wouldn't. And even then, both Anastasia and Tatiana are names of the murdered Romanov daughters so I probably wouldn't because of the unhappy connotations.

Given the number of women murdered annually and throughout history you'd be hard pressed to find a name of a woman who hasn't been murdered at some point.

Those names are sufficiently popular in E. Europe (and Greece) that they're not principally associated with the Romanovs.

@FurrySlipperBoots

I love it but it's thoroughly 'Russian', so I think you'd need Russian Ancestry or live there for it to really work.

It's also popular in Greece.

I quite like it - it will get shortened though! (The two I know are Ana and Zia). So I wouldn’t worry too much about pronunciation.

Anoushka, Rosaria, Seraphina, Sanchia, Tamara, Leonora

I like it too, almost chose for DD. But 50 shades spoiled it for me.

I love it.
Saskia, too. Is that similar?

My DDIL is named Anastasia (born in Ukraine), she is never called anything other than Ana and has to constantly correct people who spell it Anna.