Anastasie
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This is one French name that has never appealed (well that and Alexandrie). Anastasia is so much nicer, imo.
Re: mns, personally I'd pair it with something equally French.
Re: mns, personally I'd pair it with something equally French.
I think it's really pretty and I've always adored the meaning of the name.
I actually like this name as an alternative of anastasia, but maybe its a bit too cute, like most 'ee' names, however there is nothing strange about it. Is it anna-stay-zee or anna-staa-zee? Where i come from anastasia is pronounced anna-staa-zha (anastasja), so even anna-staa-zhee is possible. Anastasi is a popular greek surname.
Anastasie Morgana
Anastasie Jane
Anastasie Liliana
Anastasie Marie Kay
Anastasie Beaulyn
Anastasie Amalia
Anastasie Dianna - pronounced either dy-aana or dee-aana
Anatasie Leigh
Anastasie Araminta
Anastasie Claire
Anastasie Morgana
Anastasie Jane
Anastasie Liliana
Anastasie Marie Kay
Anastasie Beaulyn
Anastasie Amalia
Anastasie Dianna - pronounced either dy-aana or dee-aana
Anatasie Leigh
Anastasie Araminta
Anastasie Claire
Anastasia is my favourite name of all time...but sadly I do not like Anastasie...although I wish I did, because it would go better with my french surname.
It reminds me a bit of Ilya Nastase ("nah-STAH-zee"), the male (Romanian?) tennis player from the 1970's. But I have pleasant memories of his humor so it's not a bad association. That does put me more in the mind of Romanian names than French ones, but the slightly exotic air it lends is appealing to me today.
So that's a long winded way of saying I like it very much. :-) But I wouldn't pronounce it exactly the same way you do. I'd keep the stress more evenly disbursed and falling more, if at all, on the third syllable. I know the conventional wisdom is that all stress falls on the last syllable of French words / names. But in practice I'm not so sure that's entirely true. But I may be stuck on the Ilya Nastase reference / pronunciation so don't quote me on this.
Anastasie Martine
Anastasie Solange
Anastasie Maria
Anastasie Pauline
Anastasie Therese
Anastasie Liv
Anastasie Mileva ("mi-LAY-vuh")
Anastasie Valentine / Valentina
Anastasie Melusine
Anastasie Nicole
Happy hunting!
So that's a long winded way of saying I like it very much. :-) But I wouldn't pronounce it exactly the same way you do. I'd keep the stress more evenly disbursed and falling more, if at all, on the third syllable. I know the conventional wisdom is that all stress falls on the last syllable of French words / names. But in practice I'm not so sure that's entirely true. But I may be stuck on the Ilya Nastase reference / pronunciation so don't quote me on this.
Anastasie Martine
Anastasie Solange
Anastasie Maria
Anastasie Pauline
Anastasie Therese
Anastasie Liv
Anastasie Mileva ("mi-LAY-vuh")
Anastasie Valentine / Valentina
Anastasie Melusine
Anastasie Nicole
Happy hunting!
This message was edited 3/20/2008, 11:36 AM
I think that's not an intuitive pronunciation for many native English speakers, so in an English speaking country it might be a struggle to enforce.
And it reminds me of the Stasi.
Anastasia is much nicer!
And it reminds me of the Stasi.
Anastasia is much nicer!