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OK, here's the scoop
If you really want a meaning for Annastasia, then it would heve to be Anna (as Miranda correctly noted) plus the Greek verb "histamai" (*) meaning "to stand, to rise". Hence your name could mean "the grace of God stands" in Hebrew-Hellenic pidgin.(*) Anastasia is from the Greek, "ana-" (to repeat) and "histamai".
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And....Stasia (STA-sha) is the Polish short form of the name Stanislawa (The L should have a line though it)
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