Ana-stay-sia or Ana-star-sia?

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Just wondering which pronunciation others would assume?

And/or which you prefer?

Not English, but Anastaysia, surely? I can only imagine the star pronounciation for an Australian accent?

Ana-stay-sia is how most people here would say it, even if parent/child introduce as Ana-stah-sia, id think Ana-stay-sia would be more an accent thing

The first one. Why would you add an 'r'?

Stay

Ana-stay-sia

I prefer that of the two pronunciations also.

The first one.

If I heard the second, I would assume the parents are trying to sound posh, with emphasis on the trying.

Ay is the more common pronunciation in British English, the only nastarzya I know is Polish

I would pronounce it Ana-stah-sia
Have also heard it pronounced
Ana-stay-sia
Definitely not star, there's no R in it and I've never heard anyone pronounce it that way

I know an Anastashia.. It's awful. Anastasia with a stay sound...

In my accent, and I'm assuming the OPs too, "star" sounds exactly the same as "stah", as has been covered on these threads a million times.

Obviously the one without an R!!!

I've never heard Ana STAR sia

I would pronounce it Ana-stah-sia

Me too! No R nor AY

@whynosummerI can only imagine the star pronunciation for an Australian accent?
I've lived/worked in 3 countries, 1 being Australia, and I've always heard it pronounced the 1st way, with 'stay' in the middle.

You could call her Stasi for short

(don't do this)

The only Anastasia I have known (Russian father) was Ana-stass-ia, nickname Stassy.

The first one. Why would you add an 'r'?

Nobody's adding an actual 'r' sound. The 'ar' bit is the OP's phonetic representation of an 'ah' sound, because 'ar' and 'ah' sound identical in most English accents in England. It's the difference between a rhotic and non-rhotic accent and it comes up on virtually every pronunciation-related thread on MN!

Both pronunciations of the name are totally fine. I've met both kinds.

A-NAST-a-see-a
;)

I would pronounce it Anastar-sia and I'm not posh or pretentious! I thought it was the correct pronunciation of a Russian name, and the "stay" pronunciation was American. Happy to be told I'm wrong though.

Yes I think the ah sound is the original Russian and Greek version.
ay sound is probably the anglicised version so you can choose which ever you prefer

Stace

I've known two, both pronounced it Anna-Stay-Sha. They were related to each other. Both used the shorter name Stay-Sha for day to day.

A-na-sta-SIA (with the accent at the end) is what I’d assume if I saw it written

Anna stay zhuh - and that's how the DJs pronounce the pop singer's name

That's what I would guess at first, but if they had Russian or Eastern European heritage, Anna-stah-zhya wouldn't surprise me either.