Anastazie is a Czech feminine given name in the Anastasia family. Its ultimate source is Greek anástasis (ἀνάστασις), “resurrection” or “a rising up.” The accentuated form Anastázie is also Czech; importantly, Czech population data have counted Anastazie and Anastázie separately, so the unaccented spelling is not always merely a modern database error.
Meaning: “resurrection,” not a description of the bearer
The University of Oxford’s Lexicon of Greek Personal Names derives Greek Anastasia (Ἀναστασία) from anástasis, “resurrection.” Its survey places Anastasia among names created in late Greek to express Christian ideas, rather than among names inherited from classical Greek mythology.
The precise formation is clearer than the loose translations often given on baby-name sites. The medieval-name scholar Sara L. Uckelman describes Anastasia as the feminine of Anastasius; her entry for Anastasius gives the same Greek root, ἀνάστασις. “Resurrection” is therefore the safest concise meaning. Renderings such as “the resurrected woman” or “she who will rise again” add grammar and a personal claim that the cited sources do not establish.
From late Greek Anastasia to Czech Anastázie
Oxford’s survey records Greek Anastasia from approximately the third century AD into the Byzantine period and connects the name’s wider adoption with Saint Anastasia, a victim of the persecution of 303–304. This is evidence for the antiquity and Christian setting of the name family; it is not evidence that every later Anastazie was named directly for that saint.
The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources shows how the Greek-derived name circulated in Latin documentary forms beyond the Greek-speaking world. Its examples include Anastasia in a French source dated 814, in England in 1189, and in German records in 1226–1227 and 1287. These are dated examples in that dictionary’s corpus, not a claim to identify the first woman ever given the name.
In Czech, the form is Anastázie, with Anastazie also documented as a variant. Behind the Name’s Anastázie entry identifies it as Czech, gives the pronunciation /ˈa.na.staː.zɪ.jɛ/, and cross-references the unaccented spelling. For an English speaker, a rough guide is AH-nah-stah-zih-yeh. Czech stress falls on the first syllable; the acute accent in á marks vowel length, not the stressed syllable.
What the two Czech spellings tell us
Archived Czech Ministry of the Interior data, republished by KdeJsme.cz, counted 1,145 people named @@0@@ and 484 named @@1@@ as of January 2017. The project’s data notes identify the ministry database as the source and explain the snapshot dates.
Those figures establish three limited points: both spellings were in official use, the accented spelling was more numerous in that snapshot, and the name was not confined to one Czech locality. They are not current counts and should not be presented as a 2026 popularity ranking. The data also do not show why a particular family chose one spelling.
When identifying a person in records, preserve the spelling actually written. A catalogue may strip diacritics, but an original Anastazie may also be an intentional or officially registered form. Conversely, Anastasia in a Latin or international record and Anastázie in a Czech record can belong to the same person, but the shared etymology alone does not prove that they do.
Related forms—and forms not to conflate
The wider family includes Greek and international Anastasia, Polish Anastazja, Slovak Anastázia, French Anastasie, and the masculine Greek form Anastasios. These spellings reflect different languages and naming traditions. They are useful search variants when a person crossed linguistic or administrative boundaries, but they are not freely interchangeable in a transcription.
Similarly, a short form should be expanded only when the record or family context supports it. Resemblance to an Anastasia-family form is not enough to identify a full legal name.
Etymology is not genealogy
The etymology explains why Anastazie belongs to a Greek-derived Christian name family. It does not demonstrate Greek ancestry, Czech nationality, religious belief, descent from a saint, or kinship between two bearers. Those are questions about an individual or family and require evidence beyond the given name.
References
- Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, University of Oxford, “Greek Names in English” (entry for Anastasia), including Greek attestations, meaning, and historical context.
- Uckelman, Sara L., “Anastasia” and “Anastasius”, in The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, ed. S. L. Uckelman, Edition 2023, no. 1.
- Campbell, Mike, “Anastázie”, Behind the Name, updated 16 November 2019. Used for the Czech form, variant, and pronunciation.
- KdeJsme.cz, “Anastázie” and “Anastazie”, January 2017 Czech Ministry of the Interior data; see the project’s source and date notes.