Given name

Nastasja

Nastasja is a feminine given name from Russian. It is used in Ingrian.

Original RussianНастасья

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Nastasja comes from Russian.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Russian Настасья.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2000. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Nastasja through the years

Babies since 1880
10
0 boys · 10 girls
Most popular year
2000
5 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Nastasja in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2000–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2001. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Nastasja’s family of names

In Ingrian usage, Nastasja was borrowed from the Russian form Настасья. In Ingrian usage, Nastasja has a conventional equivalent in the English form Anastasia.

Walk Nastasja’s family in the name graph

NastasjaNasstasjaAnastasiaНастасья

Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Nastasja

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

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