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I think it's a beautiful and classic name. I like the prn. an-uh-stay-zha and ana-stay-zha best. Most people will prn. it w/ the Anne-ah sound.

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Lovely name.

I like it, and I really don't think it's so totally unheard of that people with mispronounce it.

I love it!
It is what my mum wanted to call me so I would have been Anastasia Catherine or Anastasia Helen :)
My mum would have prounced it anna-stay-zia. Like her grandmother did (who I was going to be named after).

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- Kitty
[edited for typo]

This message was edited 2/4/2005, 10:12 AM

I don't care for it. It's too frilly sounding. I pronounce it as An-uh-STAY-zha.

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-Lissa Hannah-

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You ask, What's in a name? I answer, Just about everything you do. - Morris Mandel

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As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. - Allan Bloom

I've never liked it. It's too frilly or pretentious or something. But it also just sounds a bit tacky & gaudy.

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I've always heard it pronounced an-nah-STAY-zha.

Anastasia is a name that my husband and I briefly toyed with for our last child (Anna). I pronounce it ahn-a-STAH-see-a but am a little put off by the ann-a-STAY-sha pronunciation. It reminds me of anesthesia! I do think that's the way it would be pronounced most often in the US, however. Whatever the pronunciation, it's a beautiful name.

I think people would say ah-nah-stah-zyah, because it's the only way I've heard it prononced.

I started to love the name because I'm interested in the last Russian Royals too :) I also love Tatiana ...

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It's the name of one of my ancestors so I may use it

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I pronounce it AH-nuh-STAY-zha and would use the nn Anya

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alice x

Out of the pn I like AN-uh-STAY-zha. I would never choose the name myself because it sounds over the top.